This post is about September’s exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Turning Point.

It is another adaptation of an ancient Irish blessing poem.

I’m creating a series of these blessing poems, that I’ll c […]

This is a comprehensive guide to recording audio poetry that will give you all you need to know to record a poem in .mp3 format for the Self-Publishing Poetry Podcast.

The first part of the post is about […]

I received two emails from readers recently about the third part of my Ireland trilogy. They wanted to know when In the Hour,  the next novel in the series, was going to publish. I took this as a sign to get a mo […]

I recently took a create date in County Wexford, the corner of Ireland where I was born and raised, and the place that I find more creatively inspiring than anywhere else in the world. It gave me this poem about […]

Once a year I take myself off for a writing retreat in Wexford, Ireland, where I was born and brought up.

It’s always a highlight of my year for me. It’s bliss to be able to focus on a single aspect of my wo […]

It’s rare for me to do one thing only but this week I’ve been enjoying a writing retreat and feeling the power of creative focus.
My Creative Week: Week 33, Q3, 2019: The Power of Creative Focus
Time to log our […]

In the poetry slot this Sunday: a poem inspired by Alan Watts’ wedding vows as read by my friend and publishing colleague Jane Friedman, author mentor, publishing columnist and one of the people I most admire in t […]

The Kiss My Genders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre was the site for my create date this week. This exhibition was unsettling in all the right ways, as expected. What I didn’t expect was to […]

Are you looking forward to the creative week ahead? Do you know what you intend to create this week? Below is the map of my creative intentions for my author business for this week (Week 31 Q3 2019).
Our theme […]

My daughter and I took a trip to the Kiss My Genders Exhibition at The Hayward Gallery (more about this in Tuesday’s Create Date) and there was a booth playing the old pride anthem “I Am What I Am” […]

For me, this week was all about poetry and a new book decided to emerge. Below is what happened during my creative week: week 30, Q3, 2019. How was your creative week? You can share yours with us in our Facebook g […]

This week’s highlights: Digital Book World 2019 is here!; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Angelique L’Amour on curing your cancer while caring for kids and, as ever, Dan Holloway has all the lat […]

Below is the map of my author business creative intentions Week 30 2019. Our theme for Creative Flow Practice this week is Optimising Creative Conditions. What conditions, inner and outer, do we need to create in […]

How was your creative week? Here are my creative accomplishments log week 29 2019. You can share yours with us in our Facebook group here.

My creative intentions, as outlined in the Facebook group last Monday, […]

This week’s highlights: Debbie Young explains how to get bookshop distribution; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Rachel Thompson on how writing books and helping others brought healing after al […]

I’m back at desk after ten days away at a family wedding in Spain. That’s us there, enjoying some good, good times. Happy now to be back to summer (at last) in London and looking forward to finishing some p […]

Pic by Hu Chen @huchenme
Sunday is poetry day on my blog. This week’s inspirational poetry: First Time

FIRST TIME

One day old.

As we, with your mother, stare and ache
at the soft, open throb
of your […]

This week’s highlights: Debbie Young explains why book marketing doesn’t trump writing craft; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Leila Summers on why everyone should write a memoir and, as ever, D […]

This week’s highlights: In this month’s #AskALLi Advanced Self-Publishing Salon, Joanna Penn and I discuss how to review what’s working and what’s not in your author business; Howard Lovy interviews inspi […]

This week’s highlights: In this month’s #AskALLi Podcast, ALLi Launches the Indie Authors’ Copyright Bill of Rights; Howard Lovy interviews inspirational indie author Steff Green on why she wrote a book about bull […]