My thoughts about books, writing, life and so many other things….Judy Leigh/ Elena Collins.
So, I’ve been asking lots of people, who’s the biggest badass in literature when it comes to males we love to hate in books . Out of all the novels filled with Bluebeards and Byronic men, who’s the biggest baddie? Of course, the conversations have been captivating. (I’m talking about male protagonists here – discussions …
Back at the end of February, I went to Poole for the LLPP launch event in Poole, Dorset. It’s a project promoting the sale and use and availability of large print books, making reading accessible to everyone. I’m a great lover of libraries. I visit them all the time. I’m so lucky to be the …
I spend a lot of time writing novels and editing them. I write four novels a year, so that’s twelve edits too. It’s nice when they come separately and a bit scary when they come together but I enjoy what I do so much and I never worry about looming deadlines. I do have to …
Tom Hardy the actor embodies what I love about all arts....
Without readers, a word on a page is invisible....
Writers have their own schedule, their own way of completing the wordcount and getting to THE END of a novel. Here are my thoughts...
Here's a blog post about why so many women were accused of being witches.
Are the male protagonists in romance novels too good to be true? Or is it possible to take them into our hearts?
During the difficult lockdown moments when the sun isn’t shining and the world looks quite bleak, when people no longer have a reliable source of income and they can’t buy some foods or they have to queue at a distance to get them; when we all miss the simple things like going out for a …
Continue reading Appreciating ‘Dappl’d Things’ during lockdown
Recently an author-friend of mine said a novel she’d written had been refused by a publisher because there were four central protagonists, which they said was three too many. There is a template in romantic comedy that requires one heroine, someone with a problem that needs to be solved, one handsome male who might do …
That quintessence of dust 