by Graeme Cumming | May 17, 2021 | Life Lessons, Nature |
As I grow older, I appreciate the natural world more. I’ve also come to realise that I’m most at peace when I’m in, on or by water, or I’m surrounded by trees. Forests and waterways feature prominently in my novels – though not always in...
by Graeme Cumming | May 14, 2021 | Book Reviews, Life Lessons, Nostalgia |
Towards the end of last year, I read and reviewed The Initiate by Stuart France and Sue Vincent. You can read my thoughts here. It was the first of their books that I’d read and, although not written in a conventional form, it invoked my curiosity sufficiently to want...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 30, 2021 | Blogging, Book Sales, Events, Life Lessons, Meetings |
Some of you will know Sue Vincent already. I met Sue for the first time about five years ago, at the first ever Bloggers Bash. She and I had ‘met’ online through our blogs, but meeting in the flesh is, inevitably, a different experience. As I recall it,...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 5, 2020 | Blogging, Carrion, Life Lessons, Nostalgia |
Like all authors, I’ve been asked in the past whether what I write is from experience. I suspect most writers of fiction do draw from elements of their lives. That doesn’t mean to say JK Rowling attended a school of witchcraft and wizardry, or that Douglas...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 16, 2020 | Life Lessons, Nostalgia, Thinking Aloud |
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about the possibilities of Christmas this year. Whether we can have it (we can – it’s not going anywhere), and how we can have it, and the chances of there being restrictions because of Covid-19. Christmas is an important...
by Graeme Cumming | Jun 14, 2020 | Blogging, Book Reviews, Life Lessons |
During the recent blog blitz I did for Carrion, I was introduced to some book bloggers I hadn’t come across before. In the time I’ve been interacting with book bloggers, it’s become apparent that there are occasions when they don’t always feel...
