When the song changes

Listen to what makes your heart sing This quotation – taken from an interview with Todd Stashwick – is tattooed on the inside of my right forearm. Life advice that I read just as I realised that chasing publication with contemporary romance was not working. I love reading it, but writing? It’s not my genre of choice. So, I took that timely advice – and had it etched into my skin – and went back to SFF romance, the thing…

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EM-Con 2025

Yesterday, my son drove me and my daughter (Luka) to Nottingham for Todd Stashwick EM-Con. The journey took an hour and twenty, and I’m really glad he was doing the driving. A state that only increased throughout the day due to the various things wrong with me. Oi. First port of call was Todd’s table. Luka wanted a Dracula photo signed and I wanted to say “hi.” Oh, and to gift him the little something I’d crocheted for him: Teddy…

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Kinky Boots

Starring Johannes Radebe, Dan Partridge, Courtney Bowman, Scott Paige, and Newtion MatthewsOn at the Palace Theatre Manchester, 7 January 2025Written by Harvey FiersteinMusic and Lyrics by Cyndi LauperDirected by Nikolai FosterRating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Based on the (mostly) true story of Charlie Price, Kinky Boots charts him going from reluctant heir to a shoe making factory to saving it from closure by teaming up with drag queen Lola to create the titular boots. Starring Strictly Come Dancing‘s Johannes Radebe and Dan Partridge…

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Adventures in ADHD Part 2

I had my ADHD assessment this morning, and I absolutely have it. I was fairly sure, but the assessor marked me high on hyperactivity, which came as a much bigger surprise than the inattentiveness. It turns out that hyperactivity looks very different in girls/women to boys/men. In general, boys are physically active and loud, whereas girls are more mentally active – prone to daydreaming and bouncing from one idea to the next. We twirl our hair or jiggle our legs….

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A CERTAIN DARKNESS is drafted!

Yesterday, I finished the first draft of my paranormal romance A CERTAIN DARKNESS! ACD began back in January as fanfic. The idea came from a weird, dark recess of my brain that combined a fairly well-known “neo-noir supernatural fiction” series and That Scene from the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice. I tried to ignore, I really did, but it wouldn’t leave me alone, so I wrote a chapter. And then another. Four chapters in, and it was so…

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