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Stories About Cats – Supporting Cat Rescue
Stories about cats – for crazy cat lovers everywhere. If you are a cat lover and you love stories about cats then you have landed in the right place. Maggie-Many-Cats And The Cat That Flew In The Window is set in the magical town of Ballyyahoo. Ballyyahoo is a secret place – somewhere on Ireland’s Wild […]
Choosing A Book Cover Designer
Choosing a book cover designer isn’t easy. In this age of self-publishing there are many designers out there selling and designing covers at a huge range of prices. I found it hard to choose when I was searching for a new design for my book, Piggy Monk Square. I had one main idea for the […]
Happy Christmas 2013
HAPPY CHRISTMAS Christmas and the holidays are fast approaching and for many of us, it’s a time for a lot of stressful activity. In my humble opinion, it can get a bit too hectic and we all need a restful moment or three to put ourselves back together again. As for me, I am taking […]
WRITING UP A STORM
WRITING, WRITING AND MORE WRITING I’ve been writing almost non-stop lately, apart from my daily walk, or tricycle. Writing for my websites as well as my books means writing, writing and more writing. My lovely Sheba makes sure I never get to miss a walk, her sad eyes always guilt-propel me off the chair, no […]
Christmas In Ballyyahoo
A funny children’s story for Christmas. Ballyyahoo is a tiny, magical town in Ireland. Christmas in Ballyyahoo was going to be the best one ever. Until Santa and Rudolph show up on Christmas Eve and take all the presents away! It’s up to two boys, Kevin and Gerry, to save Christmas. The boys set off […]
Christmas Stories
Christmas stories have always been a big part of Christmas for me because I was lucky to have parents who always bought me books. I particularly loved reading funny stories about Santa getting stuck in the chimney, or losing his way, or running out of presents. All those little ‘Santa’s little mishap’ type stories were great […]
How to edit your own story when you’re broke.
In an ideal world, all writers would be able to afford the best of editors. But, we are not in an ideal world. Most writers don’t have much money. Most of us have seen our incomes go down even more over the last ten years. Many of us are struggling. Yet editing is vital and […]
Write, Crit, Lit…
by Megan Archer Recently, criticism has reached new blows. A writer’s work isn’t the only thing up for jabs. It is also open season on our faces, bodies, as well the usual suspect – our mental health. As a reader I admit to enjoying a bit of snark on my Sunday morning toast as the […]
How To Crash Your Website In One Easy Step
INSECURE FILE Last week I received an email from Themify. Unfortunately (for me) they had found an unsecure file in their iTheme2 package which I use used to use on this site. To solve the problem they had given me, they gave me another problem. They emailed me a list of instructions written in geek-speak, which I […]