Author Archives: Paw Prints in the Butter

If you want to see an independent author go pale and start to shake, whisper the word ‘cover’.  First of all there’s the image.  Is it eye-catching?  Does it reflect the book’s content?  Will it show up all right in … Continue reading →

The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la Today I wrote not one word. At least, not one of the words I am supposed to be writing. I abandoned the Saturday Club to its own devices. I left Joséphine … Continue reading →

My husband has been conspiring behind my back with Another Woman. For some weeks he’s been emailing ‘a man called Dave’ who belongs to a Microplus (boat) appreciation group on Facebook. The idea was that we should all meet up … Continue reading →

I’ve been ghost hunting recently.  That is, looking for photos of places near me that might be haunted.  ‘Talk to Julie,’ said Himself.  ‘She’s lived here a long time, she’ll have some suggestions.’  She did:  and a lot of them … Continue reading →

In the space of one hour on Sunday 21st January 2018, life as we knew it came to an end. At six o’clock I got up and began to make the usual morning preparations. I went into the bathroom and … Continue reading →

On a warm July afternoon, I walked in through our front door with a small brown and white dog cradled in my arms. An hour later she had decided that this was the perfect billet. In the blink of an … Continue reading →

Last week I did something extremely clever. I deleted all the files on my external hard drive. Yes, all of them: photos, addresses, deathless prose – the works. And this, ironically, from the hard drive I had bought and connected … Continue reading →

The Demon Technology Yesterday Himself and I celebrated the 40th anniversary of the day we met.  At a hen party, but that’s another story… Today he said something to me he would never have said 40 years ago, or even … Continue reading →

Well, we writers have to meet our adoring public, don’t we? So last Saturday my fellow Arun Scribe Rosemary Noble and I packed up our books and trundled over to Crawley, in West Sussex, where the library was having a … Continue reading →

Since my September post, the mists of befuddlement have cleared slightly and I understand a little more about this ‘following’ business. Thanks to kind Pete at Verite Design, you can now FOLLOW me on Facebook if that is your wish. … Continue reading →