The last couple of weeks, I have had lots of things to think about. Almost ready to name the independent American publisher who tells me he wants to publish `Shula,` my short story collection. I have rejoined The Writers` Guild in honour of this happening. My story `Words` is due to appear on the website […]
This has been a full and interesting week. I have received some moving emails in response to M E and Me. One person, among other things found the memoir comforting – and said it reflected so many of her experiences. Her husband has suffered from M E for a long time. Another person, a long-since […]
I have been really anxious in the last day or two. The numbers of people ordering my little ebook have increased daily. I keep taking out the paper copy, re-reading it, noticing the hundred places where an extra word would help. Or a sentence. Or even half a page. After all, the thing is short. […]
M E & Me is now available as an ebook online. Many thanks to John Wheatley for amazing help and support. John Wheatley, who has written and published a number of books, most of them extremely well-researched historical novels, is not only a friend of a friend – but happens to have been English and […]
I`m not sure how often, if at all I have referred to M E, since I began blogging. I have had it, or something like it twice. Or perhaps three times. No need to go into detail, as I have already done this in a 20,000 word memoir which I have called M E and […]
I have noted, and complained about the almost ubiquitous tendency on the part of mainly male writers, to start the tales they want to tell by `killing off` the mother of the plot. Certainly, had I specialized in English, and done a PhD, I would have explored this paradigm in my research! Last night I […]
In parallel with lockdown, I stopped blogging. No idea why. In a period like this, talking to the air, sending words out there, is surely a very human thing to do? Perhaps I was stopped in my tracks because so many of my blogs have included comments on plays I have seen. It isn`t as […]
Well not exactly. Turns out there is one more story for the collection. It has a title, The Purple Rug, and has written itself in the course of four or five days. Now I am really ready to present the collection of thirteen stories. Oh, and the first one, previously called The Man on the […]
I`ve been really busy finishing first one, then another short story. The current story – this time I am certain – will be the last in the collection I will be putting together soon. But in London there is always plenty to do and see. We tend to put plays first, music second, and galleries […]
Last week I saw The Tyler Sisters by Alexandra Wood at Hampstead Downstairs. Last night I saw The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People, written by and starring Rosalind Blessed – at the Old Red Lion. The Tyler Sisters was directed by Abigail Graham, Dogs and People by Caroline Devlin. Plays by women, […]