Vive la France! Sugar & Spice/Paraphilia goes European

Not many things shut me up. In fact, it’s pretty hard to recall a time when I was ever lost for words (well, coherent words anyway). I guess I’ve had a couple of jaw-dropping moments over the last two years; like when we first started out on this insane writer/publisher-thingy journey and we hit treble figures for the first [...]

Sugar & Spice: The real facts behind things not so nice… a reader’s story. The final chapter

When I first started this journey with Cheryl some months ago now, not for a second did I think this was ever anything to do with ‘Sugar & Spice’. Our story was fiction. True, it was based on extensive research and real-life events, but it was and still is, a made-up story. When Cheryl first emailed offering [...]

Sugar & Spice: The real facts behind things not so nice… a reader’s story.

Every writer gets bad reviews. Some take them to heart, others don’t bother reading them at all; in fact, I had a personal message back on Facebook from Karin Slaughter when I first started out and she said the same thing. She doesn’t read reviews. In her own words: “no good can ever come of [...]

Saffi Does Sherlock: Sherlock Holmes – The Blue Carbuncle (An enhanced ebook for kids) by Saffina Desforges

You can imagine the conversation Mark and I had when I told him that I had never read any Sherlock, right? Needless to say, the electronic airwaves where bluer than the carbuncle in this short story! Now for those of you who are also ignorant as to what a carbuncle is (sounds like something you [...]

Grab a fistful of MDNA: Spotlight on Madonna and what we can learn from her as writers and publishers

Now those of you that follow this blog will know that I don’t normally do this. I am not one for bleating on about “how to” and “what you can learn from a best-selling writer“… etc etc. There are two reasons for this: 1. I am no expert and am still learning every day. 2. [...]

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