You know what maps spells backwards? Yeah. I am SO sorry if over the weekend you’ve been receiving weird notifications that someone has replied to your comments at my blog. I’ve deleted the freakin plug-in responsible. It was meant to make commenting easier — it sure did! easier for spammers. By replying to your comments…

The season is turning. The heat of summer is giving way to cooler Autumn days. The plants are grateful. Here the leaves don’t glow with colour. The weather stays warm too  long and the leaves simply fall. But we do have pomegranates. I trimmed the holy basil and it has a flush of new green…

Life seems to me to be a long journey through trying to understand, thinking you understand, to realising you’re wrong. Or maybe that’s just me faced with the ever-evolving online world? I thought being an author meant obsessing about words. It does. But I’m now convinced that if being an author means having an online…

Authors are the whole bag of tricks. I still remember the online conversation when I first self-identified as an author – and the wonderful Carina Press authors who said “Of course you are!” Back then (the Dark Ages, it was 2010) I had a clear idea of the distinction between writers and authors. Writers are…

I think I’m spread too thin across social media. Just look at the number of buttons on the left side of this blog. Ouch! Anyways, I thought I’d do a round up of where I am online, in case any of you are there too and we haven’t connected. I’m a bit shy about “friending”…