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Blog postIt makes me irrationally excited, scared and proud to announce today that my next book is coming! While it's my second full-length novel, it's my first contemporary romance, and can you believe it, my editors tell me it's actually a rom-com!
Nobody is more shocked than me that I've managed to pull off such a feat of being funny for most of the 400 pages that this story is told on. Also, this book - it's steamy! Spicy! Hot, hot, hot!
Announcing Five Sunsets, My Next Book! Taking p -
Blog postOn Wednesday this week I hit send on an email that I'd been getting ready to send since January. Attached to it was the first draft of the sequel to The Weaker Sex, a book tentatively titled The Way We Were. That email whisked away the 80,000 word draft to my developmental editor (not sure what that is, read this post about different kinds of editors) and I will get it back some time in May covered in highlights, red lines, comments and questions about what the eff is going on in my brain. It
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Blog postBelow is the author's note I included in the back of The Weaker Sex, the second in my London Killing series of thrillers, which begins with my novella The Wait. I wanted to publish it here to share a bit more about why and how I wrote The Weaker Sex because it was not a linear or easy journey. To say I learned a lot writing this book is a grand understatement and it's important I acknowledge some of the lessons I had to learn in order to make this book what it now is.
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Blog postGuess what? I wrote another book! And it's available to pre-order, right now! The Weaker Sex will be published on 17th January 2022 and is available on Amazon as a paperback or as ebook for Kindle. You can also add The Weaker Sex to your Goodreads reading lists here.
And this isn't just any book. It's my first published novel. Can you believe it? And this is what the cover looks like:
If you've been hanging around here a while you'll know that I have been writing fiction on and -
Blog postWhen I shared this list of the things that helped 2020, an undisputably hard year for one and all, it was a really excellent exercise in making me realise that despite the year being one of my hardest to date, it hadn't been all bad and that in the process, I had learned an incredible amount about myself, and the world around me, while also growing as a human being.
I suspect that that is part and parcel of navigating difficult periods of time - and this is a lesson in and of itself - -
Blog postIt makes no sense to me that my final batch of positive daily affirmations from this year-long challenge were actually the easiest to write. Last month I thought I was all out of ideas, inspiration and even enthusiasm for affirmation, but this month something shifted and this list of positive affirmations for December are easily among my favourite of the whole year.
I suspect it's because I had something to really focus on as the calendar year comes to an end - the last twelve months -
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Blog postPlease accept my apologies in advance because this batch of 30 daily positive affirmations for November are not the happiest or most upbeat I've ever written. And there's a reason for that. I think I have to finally accept that I struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder and these shorter days, longer nights, also darken my mood.
If you can relate (if you are indeed in the Northern Hemisphere) then it's my hope at least that these positive affirmations will offer you some comfort or a -
Blog postThe Best Creative Habits You Should Try When it comes to building effective creative habits, it's important that they are easy to both start and maintain. There's no point trying to introduce a range of exciting and inspiring creative habits that you work hard to start but you're unable to keep going with them. By definition this means whatever you're trying - be it journaling, reading more, trying a new creative hobby - isn't a habit because it's not possible for you to keep it going.
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Blog postTen months into this year of affirmations challenge and I can hand on heart say that this month's collection of daily positive affirmations for October are the biggest mix bag of all. These affirmations came to me here and there over the last few weeks. Sometimes during a short meditation session, other times when I was riding my bike around Amsterdam, or out on a run in this bright Autumn sunshine. A handful came only when I had to sit down and finish this list, because only a handful was ne
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Blog postSeptember always feels a bit like a second new year to me. I know this is hugely because I associate it with the beginning of a new school year - and that hangover has lasted far too long - but to be honest, I don't mind. Being a huge fan of sunshine and summer weather, I often have a tendency to dread the changing of season from summer to autumn but this "new year" feeling of September often helps to alleviate that a little.
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Blog postThis batch weren't the easiest positive affirmations to write, and I can't exactly put my finger on why. Possibly it's because we are now eight months into this and so yeah, I'm running out of brand new and original affirmations, but I also think it's because this month my kids were off school and childcare so I was incredibly time short. Speaking honestly, I was also a little affirmation-short, in that I wasn't really prioritising speaking positively to myself. And I have learnt the hard way
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Blog postWhen I sat down to write these affirmations - I normally do most of them in one or two big batches, and also add in other ones that come to me out of nowhere as and when they do - I really felt quite blocked. Rather than stare at a blank page, I went back re-read some of the positive affirmations I wrote for this challenge and you know, it helped release so much of the negative thinking I was having relating to why I couldn't come up with 31 positive affirmations in one go.
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Blog postWriting has been my main source of income for nearly a decade and while it's been an up-and-down journey, it's not one I've ever regretted going on. I earn money writing stories on this blog you're reading now, for clients as a freelance writer, and also in actual real published books, like my three short story collections (Shy Feet, London Eyes, Nine Women).
It took me a while to figure out that making money from writing stories was not only possible but it actually also has unlimite -
Blog postSummer has finally arrived in Amsterdam and it's very, very welcome.
So yes, you can expect this month's collection of affirmations to be a sort of list of positive affirmations for summer, as many are heavily influenced by the lovely, hopeful, warm wonders of this new season. However, I would still like to think tha most of them can and should be used on any day of the year.
I will be honest and say that as I arrive at the half-way mark of this year's challenge of writing one affirm -
Blog postHow to Travel with Kids I shared these tongue-in-cheek golden rules for travel with kids in an Instagram post back in September last year, but had such a fun response that I want to give them a more permanent home here. Consider these rules for family travel as anything but real rules. They are more guidelines on a good day, or depressingly accurate annoyances on a bad day, and let's be real - we all have bad days when we travel with kids!
But all this being said, travelling with my ki -
Blog postI found this list of positive affirmations for May quite hard to right as I am experiencing a lot of multiple different, conflicting feelings right now. I am feeling deep gratitude for how life is a little easier in these post-lockdown months, and I cannot deny my heart is being buoyed by the hope on the horizon that are the vaccinations happening all over the world, but I am also feeling something of a hangover from the last year, and especially the hard, hard start to the year.
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Blog postSelf-Care Activities for Kids In this post I wrote all about what self-care for kids looked like and suggested ways to introduce children to self-care that were very general. These self-care for kids ideas could be explored as much or as little as you wish, and the same goes for this post, which lists more specific (but still quite general) self-care activities for kids. If you're completely new to thinking about self-care for kids, I do encourage you to read that post first, or maybe go back
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Blog postUltimate Guide to Self-Care for Kids Tell me honestly, how much - as a parent, carer or just, human being - how much have you thought about self-care for kids? Enough to make it something your kids grow up learning about? Enough to know you would like to introduce to your children, but you're not sure how? Or is this maybe the first real time you are thinking about self-care for children?
Whatever your answer, welcome! You are in the right place to learn more about self-care for childr -
Blog postHere in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring has truly sprung and so my mind naturally feels a little bit more positive thanks to more daylight and signs of growth popping up everywhere. I am also tentatively starting to think about summer and what those months will be... However, with all this comes a natural tendency to think a bit too far ahead rather than keep my mind in the here and now, which as many of you is kinda basic level mindfulness stuff!
But of course, positive affirmations d -
Blog postAs I was researching and writing this post on self-care for kids, I wanted to include some information about the history of self-care and self-love, in order to frame how they are both modern and historical concepts. After doing some research, it quickly became clear that what I wanted to include about this was actually big enough to be a stand alone blog post and so that's what you're reading today; a short history of self-care and self-love.
The reason I haven't separated the two con -
Blog postI had hoped I'd have found a rhythm for writing these daily positive affirmations by now, considering we are three months in to this year of daily positive affirmations, but actually this month felt the hardest of all - hence the late publication date. Upon reflection, I don't see this as a bad thing, especially as (yet again) SO MUCH has happened this month. (And if you'd like to, you can also read January's and February's positive affirmations.)
Each week, huge world events have prom -
Blog postToday we have a guest post for you by a freelance book editor. While I have written extensively about writing on this blog, I haven't specifically written much about editing, and I certainly haven't explained the different types of editors that can help you make your book - non-fiction or fiction - the best it can be.
As an indie author it's imperative to me to produce and publish my best possible work, as sadly us self-publishing authors often have to put up with a stigma of bei -
Blog postWhen your birthday falls in February and you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can quickly develop something of a love-hate relationship with this short month. I love that it's my birthday month, and while I have mixed feelings about Valentine's Day I do love me some hearts, and ooh, there's also Pancake Day but let's be honest too. WE ARE ALL SO OVER WINTER by the time February rolls around it can also be a hard month to get through no matter how short.
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Blog postLast week, when I first heard a snowstorm was heading Amsterdam's way, it wasn't a lie. I've honestly never seen so much snow in Amsterdam.
The city woke up on Sunday morning to a blanket of white covering almost everything and still the snow fell. Indeed it fell all day and into Monday too. The temperature also plummeted and an icy cold wind whipped its way down the streets too, really reminding us that it was a snowstorm rather than a snowfall.
Ever since then we have been exp -
Blog postOnce upon a time when we could (rightly or wrongly) travel far and wide without fear of spreading a deadly virus, I established myself as something of a luxury travel blogger. This even extended to luxury family travel once I started popping out children - ha, I hate how easy it sounds when you say it like that when in reality family travel, no matter how luxurious, is anything but easy! - and you can find all my luxury family travel tips here.
But what about luxury travel in Amsterdam
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