Delighted to see that The McBride Chronicles historical series has made the long list for book series awards at the Chanticleer International Book Awards in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Finalist will be announced in April 2025. Chanticleer Reviews was founded in 2011 as a response to the growing need for a company invested in the success […]
My Annual Christmas Plea! Christmas is fast approaching——a time of love and a time for families. It can also be a time of unimaginable sorrow if you are mourning a loved one, especially if that loved one is a child. Throughout history, women have lost children for many different reasons. Difficult births resulting in stillborn
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No Place Like Home During my life, I have been lucky enough to have travelled to many different countries and have stayed in a multitude of different hotels through the years. Some were 5-star or better; some mediocre and some (in my youth) hostels or cheap hotels. They all have one thing in common. They
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New Beginnings To me, this time of year seems more like A New Year than January 1st does. It is a time for new beginnings—a new school year, starting university— and even if you are well past those years yourself, thinking about when your children were starting school. Now with grandchildren entering the world of
The Birth of a Book Series! When I was about nine years old and still lived in England, an uncle gave me a very special book which I have treasured for years. It was called The Abridged Bible Catechism and was given to small children in Sunday school back in the 1840s. But it was
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From Fact to Fiction (This is a recent blog I wrote for UK Author Judith Arnopp’s blog. She will be a Visiting Author on my website soon.) I have always been passionate about historical fiction, even though for many years as a writer in England where I was born and educated and in Canada where
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When you’ve been writing and publishing as long as I have, you’ve seen it all—or most of it! I wrote my first story when I was six and had my first article published in a local newspaper when I was twelve—which was a long time ago! But it was in the 1970s and 1980s that
