It's Week 8 of #EscapeWithABook, and this week's a bit different because I have a FREEBIE for you! School's Out is a longish short story which I wrote as a bit of a warm-up for Pippa Parker book 6. It's a very gentle, cosy mystery which features a few of the characters you may have …
Have you received a gazillion emails this week titled 'We don't want to lose you?' Yeah, me too. To be honest, I'm enjoying the opportunity to repeatedly ignore some of the increasingly desperate pleas; the ones from companies I don't think I've ever signed up to get mail from. Anyway, GDPR - the General Data …
So Camp NaNoWriMo is over for another year. I achieved my modest target of 25,000 words on April 25 (how apt!), finishing Something Blue the next day with just over 28,000 words. Here's the graph: I was aiming for between 25 and 30K, so I'll take that. Once I got started, the writing was fairly easy, …
'Beautiful floral bedding for spring' is the title of an email I received a few days ago from M&S (Marks & Spencer, if you're unfamiliar with the brand). My initial reaction was 'Is this supposed to be for me?': I suspect that isn't quite what M&S were aiming for. When I voiced my 'whuh?' on social media …
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Liz Hedgecock 