This is the beginning of my Dangerously Different YA Fantasy journey: the entrance into Dowan Crutha - a land of person/animal shapeshifters. Saoirse is human, and this is where she must go to fulfill the needs of my story. After much thinking and dreaming and getting to know my main characters and world building, I wrote a possible structure and took it to the wonderful critical helpers in the on-line writing colony Litopia. The concept was well received and a good deal of t

I invite you to come with me as I play with the craft of writing, as I work my way towards publication. I am writing a YA fantasy novel. Follow this thread to see what writing tips I pick up along the way. I'm a plotter. I like the essence of the story to be flowing through my brain before I write it. Then I write a general outline. Once I have a chapter by chapter framework, a scaffolding, I start writing. Keeping an eye on the framework, I let the muse and my characters tak

This is where I will let you know where to find stories I've published and where I'll give away stories for you to enjoy. > "SPELL" extract (Mirelda book 1, now called WOLF BLIND ) read by me at Cymera Festival 2021 Open Mic event (This was my first novel attempt. It received agent interest but no takers, so has been shelved until I work out how to improve it) https://youtu.be/DI8qbg8q3Q0 > "THE GREAT ESCAPE" in Litopia Short Story Hunters podcast, episode 2, 2021 https://po

From time to time, I will interview other authors about their writing process, their latest novel, their favourite reads. Nothing to see here yet, but bear with, keep checking . . . there will be . . .