My 2025 planners are OUT NOW! For those of you who still prefer a good old fashioned paper diary, hopefully my designs will be right up your street and help you plan for a great year ahead! To check out all the planners listed on Amazon either click on the…
Lately, I’ve found myself thinking about what other writing projects I would like to try my hand at and also, what I would do differently if I were to begin my writing journey again. We all change and evolve as we get older and our opinions and thoughts differ from…
For me, the start of September and the new academic year is more like my January. Even after I had finished my studies, and before my children were of school age, there was something about September and the start of a new academic year that symbolised a clean page and…
Writing for children can be incredibly hard; they are an unpredictable audience, unsure of their preferred genre, and extremely harsh critics. Stories have to be exciting, with colourful characters (and perhaps even more colourful illustrations!) with a pace that can keep hold of a little one’s ever-distracted attention. In my…
Happy October everyone! For those of you looking to start prepping and planning your diaries for the new year, I am very excited to announce that my range of 2023 PLANNERS are out now under my notebook brand PANDORUS PUBLISHING. I also have some spooky notebooks for you to check…
As many of you know, I LOVE to plan and I LOVE notebooks and stationery. I also LOVE food, specifically, feta cheese. So after founding my notebook brand PANDORUS PUBLISHING and creating diaries, planners, dream journals and so on, I suddenly realised that there was one low-content book that I…
As some of you may know, I recently founded PANDORUS PUBLISHING. Under this brand name I have created notebooks, dot grid journals and 2022 planners with unique designs for people to use to organise their life and manifest their intentions. I promised to write a post about the process behind…
It’s that exciting time of year again… Nope, not the start of winter. Nope, not only a month and a bit until December. It’s NEW YEAR DIARY TIME!!! As some of you may know from one of my last posts, I recently founded PANDORUS PUBLISHING. Under this brand name I…
I have invested a great deal of time AND money in my blog and social media presence since I first set up my original website in 2012. It definitely hasn’t come cheap, and eats into my life as well as my purse. Aside from the creative gains, for most people there…
Continuing the new year theme I thought I’d do a quick post on why I keep blogging (or keep returning to the blog!) and how you can motivate yourself to carry on with what may essentially be just a hobby, even when real life gets in the way.
I was recently asked how I find the motivation/inspiration to keep on writing (even though I’ve currently hit a wall when it comes to anything blog-related!). When that first epic novel that you poured your heart and soul into finally gets published, sometimes there doesn’t seem to be much of your…
Food. Water. Shelter. Clothing. The basic necessities of life. Now it seems we have to add Social Media to that list. When I first started my blog the only other social media platform I used was facebook. Previously I had been part of the MSN generation (never MySpace) but this…
Before I started my blog and wrote my first book, I was teetering on the brink of an abyss. The abyss of creative depression, to be exact. The rigidity of a law degree and the subsequent tedious legal jobs, coupled with the frustrations of an attempted career within the fickle…
Hands up. Who likes to be criticised, even positively? Anyone? No, neither do I. *Reaches for the ouzo bottle*. Unfortunately, when you put your work out into the public forum criticism will inevitably come, and it won’t always be positive or constructive.
