I was fascinated when I first read about Flora Sandes, an English woman who became a soldier in the Serbian army during the First World War. She was 38 when the war began.It seems she had always wanted to be a boy, had wanted to fight when war was declared but had no...

I have been writing a second novel for about 4 years. This has coincided the final draft and editing of A Time for Peace. I hoped that when the first novel was published, I would have more time and energy to complete this new one. Sadly, not! The first draft was...

I have been struggling for several weeks to describe how I researched A Time for Peace. As I explained in a previous blog the novel wasn't written in one long sitting followed by careful reworking to ensure I told the story in the most effective way. Sadly, I had...

Lorna invited me to write a blog about how I came to be published. If you would like to read it, here is the link: http://literascribe.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-route-march-to-publication-author.html

  There is more to being published than I realised. Initially I thought it was a 'good thing' that Helen Meeke agreed to offer me a part in Warwick's new look history festival at the Lord Leycester hospital. Having been Warwick's Poet laureate 2009/10, I knew...

In 1914 working men and all women were not entitled to vote. Nonetheless, men responded to the call to volunteer to join the army and patriotically fight for their country. Prior to the declaration of war, women suffragettes and suffragists had been engaged in a...