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Mar 31, 2025
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A love letter to the West Yorkshire landscape through the lens of Wuthering Heights
And why we shouldn't let stories that make us feel things lead to arguments about ownership
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Video Diary, This Writing Life, January 2026
In this series I’m posting a monthly video diary in which I talk about what I’ve been up to during the past month, about This Writing Life of mine as…
Feb 6
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This author's experience of the London Book Fair
Mar 17, 2025
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I don't want to show my face today, or ever really, but even though it's the dead month of August I still need to show up to keep my…
Aug 11, 2025
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The emotional toll of being overlooked
Sep 16, 2024
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The advantage of being thin-skinned
Aug 19, 2024
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Who's going to buy your book?
May 26, 2025
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This author takes time out in order to cure their near-mortally wounded pride with a week-long fika, and succeeds. Or at least almost.
Aug 4, 2025
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Let's talk rejections
Jan 30
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My Store of Preserves - a wintry poem
...that should have been a historical essay
Jan 15
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2026, on the theme of expansion
Why I will never be original
Jan 8
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Video Diary, This Writing Life, December 2025
In this series I’m posting a monthly video diary in which I talk about what I’ve been up to during the past month, about This Writing Life of mine as…
Jan 5
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A reflection on the kind of writer I wanted to be
And continue to be in 2026
Dec 22, 2025
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SOS: “SSSS SSSS SSSS ATHENIA GDFM torpedoed position 5644 1405.”
The torpedoing of the SS Athenia - Part 2
Dec 15, 2025
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Wrapping up 2025
A gift to those who ran out of time
Dec 12, 2025
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Video Diary, This Writing Life, November 2025
In this series I’m posting a monthly video diary in which I talk about what I’ve been up to during the past month, about This Writing Life of mine as…
Dec 4, 2025
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Book fairs - Are they worth it?
My experience as a not completely unknown children's author
Nov 27, 2025
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