Blog Tours for Authors – are they worth it?

Blog Tours for Authors – are they worth it?

Hello, fellow readers, writers and bloggers! As any writer will tell you, there’s nothing better for inspiration and motivation than a bloody good, heart-warming review. And I've had several lately, thanks to the 'blog tour' journey that my novel, Infinite Stranger, recently underwent. For the unenlightened, a blog tour is when passionate readers who are [...]

A Life Imperfectly Lived – ‘Lessons’ by Ian McEwan

A Life Imperfectly Lived – ‘Lessons’ by Ian McEwan

Before going any further, how about this quote to make you sit up and reflect. 'How easy it was to drift through an unchosen life, in a succession of reactions to events.' So, did it make you sit up and reflect? If not, then perhaps Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Lessons, will not be your cup [...]

“A moving, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting story”

“A moving, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting story”

For any writer, the early stage of promoting their hot-off-the-press novel is a heart-in-the mouth period of purgatory. And that's exactly how I'm feeling right now, as INFINITE STRANGER prepares to be released to the public on June 19th. Yep, I'm in purgatory. Will readers like it, won't they? Will you like it, won't you? [...]

When the Horrors of the Past Meet the Hopes of the Future

When the Horrors of the Past Meet the Hopes of the Future

Here's the opening of my novel, Once Upon a Thousand Hills - a bizarre love story about a feisty sex shop worker seeking more meaning in her life, and an aloof director of a London refugee centre hiding from his tortured Rwandan past. Although the backdrop is dark, the punchy romance that unfolds - 20 [...]