My latest book

Ghosts Galore, a fun, action-packed paranormal romp set in a haunted manor house

6Jul 20226 Jul 2022

Two have a Strawberry Tea

One of our good friends is a member of charity organisation The Soroptimists, who fundraise on behalf of disadvantaged women…

11Jun 2022

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Rainbow snippets: Ghosts Galore

The Rainbow Snippets FB group encourages members to post a few lines from one of their books and then link…

19Apr 2022

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Some lovely reviews

My latest book Ghosts Galore has been out for a couple of weeks now and it’s already getting some smashing…

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RoM/Mantic Reads: first story!

12 Aug 2022

I'm just dashing in to say that our new m/m romance magazine RoM/Mantic Reads has its very first story up today. It's called One Summer Night and it's by the…

News…

Coming Soon: a Brand New Zine!

11 Aug 202211 Aug 2022

Many years ago I ran an online m/m romance magazine called Forbidden Fruit. Some of you might even go back far enough to remember it! It became quite successful in…

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Classic Car Bonus

7 Aug 2022

Another sunny morning; another walk. This time we zoomed down to the coast at Grange-over-Sands. We'd intended to walk to Kents Bank station along the promenade and the side of…

Cumbria…

A Sunny Sunday Stroll

4 Aug 2022

After a drizzly start on Sunday morning the clouds rolled back to be replaced by glorious sunshine. We jumped in the car and dashed over to Ambleside, still reasonably early…

Books…

Rainbow Snippets: Night Music

30 Jul 2022

Yesterday's webring blog post was about the influence of music on our writing, and I realised after I'd posted it that I'd completely forgotten to include the short story I…

Books…

Read Around the Rainbow: Music, the Food of Love?

29 Jul 202229 Jul 2022

It’s time for the monthly Read Around the Rainbow post again and this month it’s all about music. More specifically, whether we write to it, whether we have playlists for…

Cumbria…

Hot!

19 Jul 2022

Like so many others around the UK - and further afield - we're experiencing unusually high temperatures at the moment. I took this photo of my phone in the middle…

Books…

Event – and Giveaway!

15 Jul 2022

A quick update to let everyone know I'll be taking part in a Facebook launch party on Sunday. The event is to celebrate the release of Alex J Adams' new…

paranormal…

Carnival Row – or should that be Carnival Wow

14 Jul 2022

This series did the rounds on Sky a good few years ago now. I saw Orlando Bloom was in it (as main character Rycroft Philostrate, Philo for short) and jumped…

archaeology…

Taking the High Road

11 Jul 2022

Oh, how fascinating: there's going to be an archaeological excavation along High Street - the mountain and the presumed Roman road that runs up and over it - this August.…