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Sep 302 min

Exciting news: I'm moving to Substack!

Dear friends and subscribers After much consideration, I’ve decided to move my writing to Substack. It’s an amazing platform where I’ll...

Jul 20, 20223 min

Top 6 reasons eBooks are better than printed books

28,000 books in your pocket can't be bad, can it? Or can it?

Jul 17, 20221 min

Welcome to RB Publishing

RB Publishing provides editing, proofreading and manuscript assessment services to people who are writing or self-publishing

Apr 12, 20213 min

I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up

I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up - know what they knew, be my childhood god.

Jan 14, 20191 min

Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

This one flew across my radar from a conference I attended. I’m not an overly talkative person but I also seem to cross the boundary...

Jan 3, 20191 min

Book review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

I have read a couple of other Jodi Picoult books and decided she wasn’t really for me. She seemed a bit preachy, somehow. However, The...

Jul 30, 20181 min

Book review: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

4 out of 5 stars If you love mystery, suspense, odd children, large old houses, flashbacks and elderly women of an evil disposition, you...

Jul 30, 20181 min

Book review: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

3 out of 5 stars There were so many sad stories and characters in this book that I can’t really say I loved it. I certainly wouldn’t...

Jul 30, 20181 min

Book review: Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

3 out of 5 stars A sad, dissatisfied wife and mother writes letters to her husband which are buried between the pages of the books in his...

Mar 25, 20181 min

Book review: The Choke by Sofie Laguna

My rating: 4 of 5 stars As the title suggests, this book tightens your throat with its raw poignancy of an innocent girl born into a...

Dec 14, 20142 min

Many stories are based on the same structure

Everyone loves a good story. Whether it’s a shaggy dog story over a campfire, a joke at a dinner party, a poem, a song, or a memoir, and...