Festival time

Off to a Northern Soul festival at the weekend, sleeping  in the car, washing in a bucket, living on rubbish food.  Can't wait. You never feel any older than your soul and my soul feels about 33.  It was one of the best times in my life, I had a nice house, a great job in Graphics at the BBC and my son was born.  A long way from the tiny flat in Shoreditch where I started out. I left Shoreditch with £7.00 in my pocket and tho' money comes in and goes out like the sea, I have been lucky enough to always have food on the table and a roof over my head and work to do. Thank you Universe!

No blogs today

No blogs today, although I have been so busy, I have nothing much to report.  I am having a small local book club review my book and lets hope the results are good!

I am living in the moment

I am living in the moment, fully committed to this moment in time. Moment follows moment, no past no future just the now. Enjoy it. Went to see a Shaman last night and it was amazing and I would recommend it to anyone. I went on a journey through my free running true self to the sound of ancient drums and rythmic clapping. Felt non existant ash fall on my head, choked on smoke from a bonfire in a lush green forest, heard native american laughter, and fought on Towton Bridge, the sun went down in a bloody red rush covering the fields of middle England and I was in the many different lands of my verdant and expressive mind.  Touched but not touched by invisible fingers, felt hands lift something from me, saw my body change to my authentic self and came out a smiling whole person. Calm and well.  Thank you Shaman.

The bloggers lament

I started my blog to sell my book,
But no-one seemed to take a look,
It seems to me I will stay poor,
Unless I get myself out that door,
Promoting my book is a strange old thing,
But I want to make my finances sing,
So on I go every day,
Writing, blogging and Tweeting away.

Smooth Sex on the Beach

Nope, not my book, but yeah... could be - I'm having a cocktail party tomorrow with a few local friends to celebrate the longest day. Spent today making food, shopping and cleaning, out tonight with the girls from the Ashmo. I am so lucky to have so many friends.

Tomorrow you won't hear from me because I'm going to be at Waddesdon Manor all day doing my house guide thing and the party in the evening.

Have a good longest day everyone.

Light that candle

Feel like I'm lighting a candle in a dark room - no-one can really see me yet!   NEED more candles!!
Today I'm getting ready for a cocktail party on Wednesday - yes it does take me that long, I need everything to be perfect.  Writing every day still, but I can't spend every second at the computer because you need to experience life to write about it.  So I get out there and do it. People watch in coffee shops and at the Mall,
take part in different experiences, sometimes difficult, but I do it anyway, and try to learn something new every day. Once more into the breach dear friends.....

The next big thing!

Hopefully I will have my next book in the Carter Trilogy on Amazon in the next couple of weeks, this time it's about Beth, and the way she looks at the world.

I wrote these books from 1987 - 1997 whilst working for the BBC, technology was changing, the face of TV was changing, Producer Choice had just come in and there were strikes aplenty.  Through it all the news still went out, important stuff still got done.  It was a time when money was tight and debts were high, just like today - so I felt now was the time to release these books as everyone would know in some measure what the characters were going through.

But there is always light at the end of the tunnel, even if sometimes it is the front on an oncoming train!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

For those of you who don't have Kindles here is another way to read my book - I'd love someone to give me a review of it.   My first review by an editor who read through my book said, " A fast moving chatty book just the thing for reading on a plane or while on holiday".

Please read and enjoy - off out today on yet another project!

Amazon Link to my book Jago

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jago-The-Carter-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B008ACMN3M/ref=sr_1_14?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1339404072&sr=1-14

Read the first chapter for free or borrow it from the Amazon Kindle Library - enjoy !   It's a raunchy read so hold on to your hats!

Never give in Never Surrender!

Since I saw Galaxyy Quest that has been my motto and it has served me well.  I have written for years and at one time I had something in common with the late Spike Milligan, I too had enough rejections notes to wallpaper a wall!  But there were always little victories like having an article published in Arial the BBC staff magazine about being filmed with my precious 1960s Barbie doll, and having the odd short story published.
I truly believe that fate pushed me in this direction again because the time is right.

Well in 48 hours my first novel will be on Kindle. After spending years in a drawer it really was time it saw the light of day. The start of a trilogy about two families, one in Cornwall and one in London, and how they tie themselves together for two generations.

I have been writing since I was 14 years old, having my first short story published in "Jackie", a teen romance magazine. Since then, I have written constantly, having a piece on the BBC Cornwall's website "A Sense of Place", an article on the Guardian "Experience" page,and various articles on historical costume for a history magazine.

Life got in the way as it often does, and after living in Cornwall for seven years - going there to write and paint-  then being so busy running a holiday cottage business I spent a lot of time too exhausted to do either!
I am now back to the middle of England and now have time to write again - the characters jump about off the page with excitement at coming to life at last.  I can't wait to see what happens next.