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Archive for January, 2012

Let’s Play Flute

Let’s Play Flute Books 1 and 2 are exciting flute methods written for the youngest beginners. With lots of games and tips, loads of very easy tunes and a novel and unusual way to learn to read music, they are a great way to make the first steps on the flute. Book 1 takes the […]

Submitting Work

  I’m not a regular submitter and that’s not a good thing. Of course the excuse is that time is so limited and the time I do have available for writing matters is used up in writing. That’s the way it has always been. But I have told myself that this is not good enough. Obviously […]

The Cherrywood Box

I am absolutely thrilled that my novel, The Cherrywood Box , has been successful in The Yeovil Prize, The Eludia Awards and won an SLS Fellowship. It is time to send it out to agents. I’ll inevitably have to face a pile of rejection letters but c’est la vie. It has been edited, re-read, edited, re-read and edited […]

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl – a quiet voice talking

Li’s stories tell of a China emerging into the 21st century. Her characters are fascinating and the stories are a captivating window into day to day life in China. If you are interested in the details of how people have survived all these years in the People’s Republic before the social and economic reform of […]

Stories

I am going to post work in progress and story beginnings here…

About writing, trickery and a little music