by awaetc@googlemail.com | Apr 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
So far, I have only popped in to Loxleys for a drink, otherwise known as a ‘drink and what are your bar snacks?’ More hopefully known as ‘a drink, what are your bar snacks and please please would you show me the dessert menu just in case.’ This proved an unusually...
by awaetc@googlemail.com | Mar 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of my more enjoyable jobs this year has been role of judging the Rubery Book Prize, an international prize created to celebrate independent and small publisher books of a very high standard. This is a fabulous job, as I get my hands on great reads and am actually...
by awaetc@googlemail.com | Jul 16, 2022 | Banner, Uncategorized
Last month, I had the opportunity to discuss Helen & The Grandbees at the Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival. This was a fantastic evening meeting some fabulous Warwickshire writers and hosted by Jo James (in the pic) Sadly, our technology failed… so here is a...
by awaetc@googlemail.com | Jun 4, 2022 | Banner, Uncategorized
(This article originally appeared in the Pebworth Piper) My need to leave London had been on my mind for a while. I was fatigued by London’s luxury towers and treeless plazas. It’s uptight tentacles tangled along every street and into my little Victorian cottage...
by awaetc@googlemail.com | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Adrift, the Storyteller & The Mosaicst*uses affiliate links The neatness after the tragedy. The emptied room and crisp cleaned sheets. I loved loving Robin, holding onto that glassy altruism. But I was the storyteller. Complete as my love was, I didn’t have a right to...
by awaetc@googlemail.com | Mar 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the characters in ADRIFT has recently arrived back in the UK from abroad… “Thirteen hours of high altitude, elasticated socks and menus on a yellow card.” “Jet lagged?” “And…” he began, leaving the word lingering, as if unsure whether or not to follow it up....
