Writing

I shall keep this short and sweet, but as this blog has charted so much of my writing ups and downs, it feels right to share the news with you as soon as possible… I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a two-book deal with Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown. I have […]

A few weeks ago I saw a competition on Jane Wenham-Jones’ blog, in celebration of the launch of her extremely funny (and slightly daft) book 100 Ways to Fight the Flab. The book is the perfect antidote for that well-known freelancer’s problem, Writer’s Bottom, and the competition was to write a frivolous diet tip in […]

I bumped into someone from work the other day. Not my ‘now’ work; my ‘then’ work. The work where I wore a rank on my shoulder, made decisions, briefed teams. The work I slid out of eighteen months ago, on the pretence of a break. The work I finally quit last month, earning in return […]

If you read More Than Just a Mother posts via a reader, an email subscription, or on your Kindle, you won’t notice anything different today. But click through to the home page and you’ll see that the blog has had a restyle. It’s gone back to basics. No sidebar advertising, no space for reviews or […]

I am On Retreat. Before I left I told a few people I was going on a writing retreat, and they looked at me with that look usually reserved for batty aunts and toddlers with over-active imaginations. My husband is hugely supportive, but secretly wonders what I will get done in Devon that I couldn’t […]

I haven’t blogged a lot lately. This is less to do with Christmas, school holidays and the now seemingly endless snow days, and more to do with the fact that I am writing a lot elsewhere, and simply run out of words by the time I reach my blog. I have been busy writing reflective […]