Jo Parfitt 20 tips for writing an expat memoir for our book award There are now just three months to go until entries close for our book award in memory of Lindsay de Feliz, our much-loved author, here at Summertime Publishing and … Read More
Have you embraced this new normal? These may be times of social distancing but my social life is busier than it’s been for years. We are now ‘meeting’ friends in foreign fields for coffees, cocktails, catch-ups and games not once … Read More
How to write better with TA and the 4 Cs Sounds like a rock band, doesn’t it, reader? Well, here we are again at The Inspiring Bit. Another month of lockdown has gone by and an increasing number of people … Read More
A little lockdown poetry inspired by Roger McGough’s ‘Today is Not a Day for Adultery’ Like many of us, when lockdown hit I decided it was time to adjust my business a little and take my writers’ circles online. I’ve … Read More
Word painting 31/3/2020 A few weeks ago, back in the world where we were allowed to go to the cinema, Ian and I went to see Lowry and Son starring Timothy Spall as the painter and Vanessa Redgrave as his bedridden, stifling, … Read More
It forced me to do it. I’ve been resisting running an online writers’ circle for, like, forever. But now that social contact is an impossibility and bearing in mind that my live, monthly writers’ circle has been my lifeline for … Read More
Among the worlds of kintsugi artwork 23/3/2020 I had an article published in Among Worlds magazine the other day and thought you might be interested to know that the whole issue is dedicated to the art form that inspired the … Read More
It’s not what you know, but how you network 10/3/2020 That it’s not what you know but who you know is a saying often used in a business context. As an entrepreneur who finds most of my clients through word-of-mouth and … Read More
10 reasons why daring to share may be the best thing you ever did A scene from The Writers’ Circle in The Hague; credit Natalie Carstens “What’s so interesting about me?”“But isn’t writing about myself just self-indulgent?”“Aren’t I just being … Read More
It’s hard to believe that it took me so long to discover the work of Mary Karr. Karr is professor of writing at Syracuse University and her programmes are desperately over-subscribed. Yes, she is that good. I first discovered her memoir, The Liar’s … Read More
