How I Write

Riding the mule: The adventure of small press publication

When words behave like toddlers

From clinical and academic writing to fiction

Is There Discrimination against Older Women Writers?

Putting the Personal into Fiction …
And Taking It out Again

The dos and don’ts
of the promotional blog tour

Making Small-Press Publication Work for You

A Psychologist in Fiction:
How I Came to Create Diana Dodsworth, Narrator of Sugar and Snails

Interview with Florence on
Lit World Interviews

Unravelling the mystery of mystery  

Shaped by the past: the events that make us in life and fiction

“I’m not dead”: The story behind the story

Authorpreneur Q&A with Kirtida Gautam

Three novelistic approaches to mental health issues that won’t set your teeth on edge

Author in the spotlight at Portobello Books

Writing about diversity from the outside in

How could I be a Leo?

Don’t be seduced by the allure of romance!

Wounded healers:
from clinical psychology to fiction

Blogging by the calendar

Q&A on Being Anne


Why I’m thanking my therapist


Exploring adolescent ambivalence in a novel for adults


Gender: Like God and the square root of minus one?


On invisible vulnerabilities and writing about self-harm

The shrinking violet’s 6-point guide to promoting your novel

Cinders in her stocking: what my grandmother taught me about transgenerational trauma

Q&A with Hannah Drury from Inspired Quill

My writing room

                                                              How walking helps my writing and my main character’s fear of cows

A mind of my own in another side to the story

Fictional research: a quick tour of seven contemporary novels

Tell me a story about when you were a little girl

On not knowing what your novel’s about

Is it autobiographical?

Julie Stock’s Author Spotlight:
On Setting Part of My Novel in Cairo

Good to meet you with Helena Fairfax

Q&A on Jera’s Jamboree

Three generations of a novel: the transformations
of Sugar and Snails from inception to publication

On friendship, fact and fiction

On being an elderly prima-authorista


Q&A with Carys Bray


Can ugly ducklings become swans?
The desire for transformation within us all


6 points to consider when crafting an awkward character


Q&A with A Lover of Books

Pre-tour guest posts

When small is beautiful in the publication circus

Writing about secrets, the false self and insecure identities