When I woke up during last night, from the window I could see the silhouette of the oak at the bottom of our neighbour's garden. It loomed as a maze of branches, grey shadows between them. That image describes where I am this morning with my writing. Generally I'm...

Several years ago I began writing a novel in which a woman driving her daughter to a party crashed the car. Her daughter was killed and she disabled. A friend recommended that I read *Louise Doughty's Whatever You Love. It was an emotional read, beautifully written so...

    A Time for Peace is set, in part, during the Great Retreat from Serbia. The exodus of government, army and people from its country to escape the feared atrocities of its occupying force. On 21st January 1916, the first of the Serbian army landed on Vido,...

Before the Referendum, Jan Fortune, editor of Cinnamon Press wrote: 'Freedom of movement doesn't only give business a much expanded work force, but also brings European artists, thinkers and writers into our creative networks, whilst British artists and writers have...

The final request for an edit arrived in the same week as the Referendum. It took less time than the other edits but even so I was surprised that there were errors. Overall, the majority of mistakes I picked up were spelling and punctuation. Spell check had helped...

Jan's request for a 2nd edit came before we went on holiday. I was surprised at how much work there was to do. This wasn't about altering the way the story was told but ensuring the layout, punctuation and spelling were correct. I noticed errors in clarity I hadn't...