Monthly Archives: July 2020

How to keep going when you want to lie down and die

I approached an agent in the US recently, the first time I’ve ever done this.  Perhaps, I thought wildly, my contemporary/portal fantasy novel will have greater appeal to the American public.  As I’m not very good at pretending to be … Continue reading

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The past is hysterically funny

I’ve been regaling my daughter with tales from The Olden Days, in other words, the eighties and nineties.  And a bit of the seventies. First memory of a computer:  my mother’s boyfriend’s twin brother worked with computers (I think) and … Continue reading

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