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Reading Time: 2 minutesThanks so much to Ann and Lisa from IN, USA, for sharing these incredible photos of their Bearded Dragons. And of course, extra special thanks to Wishy, Washee, Rupert, Bindi, Squirt, Idgie, Curry, Saffron and Taj. “We were setting up to take a Christmas photo and the dragons were curious about it. They gathered around […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are no spoilers in this piece, so don’t worry if you haven’t reached this part of the series yet. “I also have a crusader’s heart in one of my walls.” The house shook a little for a moment, and then Dola continued, “Ah yes, there it is. It is currently at the end of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s up! Welcome to the Recorder’s Advent Calendar ✨ Read this first, and I’ll give you the link. Please pop over to my Facebook Author page here and click Follow to get notifications. If you don’t use FB – I get it—but you’ll need to set your own reminders. Some of the fun is time […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesHappy News! There are brand-new versions of the ebooks and paperbacks. Everything has been re-proofed, the typos hunted down and fed to the dragonets, and the formatting tidied so the books now look their very best. If you have the paperbacks, nothing significant has changed. In fact, your originals might be collector’s items one day, […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutesLet’s join Niki and Tilly on part one of their stroll around Gretna Green I’m beginning a short series of posts about the tiny Scottish village of Gretna Green. We’ll look at both the historical and present-day buildings and the crazy transportation options that inspired parts of the books.Today we’re in book one and the […]

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Reading Time: 17 minutesI’ve been asked so many times recently if I plan to release audiobooks of my cosy Scottish contemporary fantasy series. And if not now, when? It’s a question that warms my heart because it shows how much my readers enjoy my stories and want to experience them in new ways. Audiobooks are a wonderful format—they’re […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The part of my newsletter that many readers enjoy most is the Behind the Books section. So I’ve pulled out those items into separate blog posts. This one focuses on the Red Celts’ capital city of Pant y Wern as featured in Seeing Red in Gretna Green and many other books in the series. What […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutes So if any of you have been wondering where previously social, always on Facebook and happy to chat, Linzi disappeared to? Well, several perfect storms of chaos landed in my world. Storm One: Christmas – Well, we all know about that. Mine was cancelled this year. Storm Two: My deadline with my editor for Code […]

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Reading Time: 13 minutes So a reader from Arizona, Suze J-S asked for more chapters of Code Yellow. That wasn’t happening. But I had this scene, much of which is now surplus to requirements. I thought it might help feed the VR (Voracious Reader) Gang. If you like it, thank Suze. If you don’t blame me. If you haven’t […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutes A quick catch up that needs a few more words than my usual brief notes on the SOTA page. The first reports from my FABs (beta readers) are coming back on Code Yellow in Gretna Green. One aspect universally agreed upon at this stage is that, apart from some specific scenes that could use a […]

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