Jo Derrick of The Yellow Room (and formerly of QWF Magazine) has just accepted my short story Blue Sky Thinking for publication some time next year and so this is the first of what I think may be a series of posts celebrating the colour yellow! QWF stood for Quality Women’s Fiction, and judging by the … Continue reading Yellow is the colour (and blue too)
It’s a while since I left the Romantic Novelists’ Association, but would love to have been a fly on the wall on their lively mailing list today, following the BBC’s Consuming Passions shown last night in honour of the Mills & Boon centenary. This was a drama comprised of three stories, each of which celebrated … Continue reading All consuming
It’s not often that golf and writing are both going well, and so I’m particularly aggrieved that overenthusuiastic pursuit of one or the other (possibly both) has resulted in a mysteriously painful shoulder. This means I’m confined to barracks and restricted to a maximum of 30 mins typing at a go until things get better. … Continue reading Double Whammy
I had never heard of Strawberry Hill Gothic as an architectural style until Sunday when we spent a memorable night at Donnington Grove in Berkshire. As the weather changed from sodden to sparkling, the trees were gorgeous and the hotel fascinating. Although our main preoccupation was golf, I’ve never been so cross at having left my camera … Continue reading Strawberry Hill Gothic
This is the excellent strap line for a writer friend’s self-published travel book launched today. Vagabond Shoes by Jean Burnett won a grant from the Winchester Writers’ Conference towards publishing costs and is definitely not in the vanity category, but Jean (fellow member of Bristol Women Writers) will be the first to tell you that the … Continue reading It’s never too late to run away
Ali Bacon, Author 