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It’s a funny thing, this strange struggle through grey fog, and not being capable of bright and happy. Firstly, I’ve never seen myself as suffering from depression as such. Oh, I’ve been depressed for sure, and I guess I’ve been on meds at one point in my life. But life is hard and sometimes that…

A lovely story, brilliant writing and an absolute joy to read. When opening this book, the metaphor loomed large. How many of us think our lives are a joke, that we don’t fit and that we can never be happy? And we all want the sad clown to be happy, right? But Catherine McCarthy has…

A romance is about love between people. In writing romance, you have to make those people believably interact to create that one extra, and most special character: The relationship itself. How important is gender and sexual orientation to the way in which romances are written? When I set out to write a romance, the most…

In this book I have put together a collection of stories where hope shines, love wins, and magic happens. There is no set genre; Guinevere Unfrozen is a Sci-Fi novella, while Ground Zero wanders a little further into Fantasy with the goddess Rainbow seeking out justice. There is a little taste of the supernatural in…

We have now set the date! One Beautiful People will be availalbe from 10th July 2025. So much to do!

One I dug out from the buried archive! I wrote this little short horror monologue in 2016. Less than a 1000 words – a five-minute read. Enjoy! Aly Are you ready? Are you recording this? Good, I will tell you everything then, just as we agreed. You can decide if I am insane or evil…

The rating system has become a kind of Publishing Relativity, with the fewer the stars, the slower the sales. Let’s be clear, left to honest opinions only; even Shakespeare would not always score so high! Because not every book will ‘hit the mark’ with every reader. A rating system has one function, which is to…

Meet Lara, as envisaged by Michelle Walls. ‘Family Wars’ will be one fo the stories inlcuded in One Beautiful People.

I now have a whole new level of professional support from the lovely Jacob Tobey at Book Authorial Support. I’m very much looking forward to working with Jacob, beginning with the marketing and promotion of One Beautiful People.

I am doing a set of story cards for my next collection of stories. These will appear in the book itself (‘One Beautiful People’), and also be used to advertise and hopefully get a few people excited. I think the characters that Michelle draws are mind-blowing, and it is such fun to see my word-creations…

Anything in the field of creative art should come from a human soul. All artwork in this article by Michelle Walls As a registered Control Freak, I have always taken on the design duties for my book covers. This was a slow learning curve for me, becoming proficient in tools such as Adobe PhotoShop and…

I, TigerListen!Is not my roar,Pounding in you frightened soul,Sweet music of a final dance? I, TigerLook!Is not this face,Smiling out from death’s door,The prettiest to ever see? I, TigerFeel!Are not my claws,Waved before you as knives,The sharpest in nature’s kitchen? I prowl in glory as Majestic Death,But still must I bow down to You, River.And staring back from…

Surprisingly to some, there is more than one way of writing in the ‘third person’ and many writers draw clear dividing lines between the approaches. In a previous article, A matter of perspective in storytelling, I took a quick look at comparing 1st and 3rd person perspectives when writing stories. Here, I go a little…