How the Marrakech Medina broke me and the creative midlife reckoning that followed. The hormonal rollercoaster of being a woman of a certain age comes with the erosion of the foundations of who you think you are as a person. I was completely unprepared for that. How is that possible? How many utterly cringeworthy videos …
Life might be telling Sunday Reilly she’s past her use-by date. But she’s not planning to go quietly.
Sunday Reilly and why she’s all out of f*cks to give this New Year’s Eve From Sunday Reilly’s journal: 2025: The Movie. ⭐️✩✩✩✩ Would not recommend. That’s the polite way to describe the clusterfuck in a flaming dumpster fire on a slow-moving train wreck that was 2025. Thank Christ Queen Lizzie wasn’t around to see …
A free e-copy of my latest novel, “Sunday Riley is All Out of F*cks to Give” Exciting news! I’ve been given a link to a free preview copy of my e-book, SUNDAY RILEY IS ALL OUT OF F*CKS TO GIVE and told to share it with friends who might want to read it in advance …
The pressure creatives feel in challenging times No matter what creative field you’re in, you do what you do because you’re attuned to the world and the people in it, so when that world is in trouble, it can be a struggle keeping perspective about the things going on around you. Allowing the creative muse …
Every writer’s been there. That terrible moment where we really should be writing, but choose to do anything but. Here are the tricks that get me writing again.
The question I’m asked most often by aspiring writers is how it’s done; my answer is pretty simple: Write… Just write… then write some more. This is expanding on one of the points I made the other day about some of the things that work for me as a writer. And this is in response …
So now I embark on what ranks as my least favourite part of the “oh, hey, yeah, I’m a writer” way of life. The sitting around waiting after my manuscript has been sent out for consideration. Right now, it’s with my agent. If she gives it the thumbs up, it goes out to publishers. Which …
When I say I’ve always wanted to be an author, I’m not exaggerating. Witness: my first self-published piece of fiction: “the elvse and the showmaker”. Yes, I clearly needed the guiding hand of a good editor. And I was yet to grasp the concept of plagiarism. But, still – I was barely 5. Cut me …