Interview with whisperingstories.com – Soulla Christodoulou
79 Soulla Christodoulou This is the fabulous interview carried out for whisperingstories.com during my recent Book Blog Tour to promote the release of my second novel The Summer Will Come. I’m delighted to be sharing it with you here. This week on ‘The Writing Life of’: I am thrilled to be interviewing author Soulla […]
Writers’ Favourite Writing Quotes (Part 7)
39 Welcome back to this fabulously popular series. This week I’m joined by fellow writer and poet Amy J. Markstahler and poet Paul Penn. So let’s jump right in and see which quotes have fired up their inspiration and the impact these have had on their writing and across their lives. Amy J. Markstahler’s favourite writing […]
Writers’ Favourite Writing Quotes (Part 6)
29 Welcome back to this series where we look at the quotes that inspire writers, poets and other creatives. Sitting down to write is not always the easiest of things to do and there are so many demands on our time including work and family commitments as well as many mundane chores that fight for […]
A Cup of Conversation with renowned thriller author Ian Sutherland
53 Welcome to my very special A Cup of Conversation with renowned thriller author Ian Sutherland who I first came to learn about when a childhood friend’s Book Club read his first novel and said they couldn’t sleep for weeks becoming so paranoid about their technological devices being bugged! I was intrigued as to how […]
A special 50th Birthday post for Lia Seaward…my sister
37 Welcome to this very special birthday post where I celebrate my sister’s 50th Birthday with a few blasts from the past and a few words from one of her best friends, her cousin and her two brilliant sisters!! I wanted to do something different for her – cards get shoved into drawers, photo albums […]
A Cup of Conversation with short story writer Anne John-Ligali
46 Today I’d like to give a warm welcome to my author friend Anne John Ligali who is very shortly releasing her second short story in her series about Friendships Online. If you missed her first story – The Big Event – it is available here. In this A Cup of Conversation interview Anne shares the […]
A Cup of Conversation with author Chris Toedt
28 1 Welcome to A Cup of Conversation! This is one of the most wonderful interviews I’ve done since I began the author interview series. Chris Toedt, has been so thorough and honest in sharing his thoughts and writing processes with me in this interview post. He is wise and clever and has connected with […]
Pascha 2018 and Greek Orthodox Easter traditions
48 Welcome to my weekly blogpost! I wanted to share with you the festival and traditions of a Greek Orthodox Easter. Pascha, Easter, is on the 8th April this year and represents the biggest religious holiday in Cyprus and across Greece and many Eastern Orthodox countries. It doesn’t always fall at the same time as […]
Disquietude…a poem by Soulla Christodoulou
30 Your words ringing in my ears Sensitive to pain as to light Foreboding layers, my grey fears A veiled cloud across my sight Anxiety invades in frantic bouts Strangling, clenching tight It is not how it should be I doubt Yet I have no more inner fight This love feels now like darkness […]
Review for The Summer Will Come from Cathy at What Cathy Read Next
35 Huge thanks and gratitude to Cathy of What Cathy Read Next for her wonderfully perceptive and in-depth review of my newly released novel The Summer Will Come, available on AMAZON. 4 * AMAZON REVIEW – posted on 20th March 2018 Emotional, engaging story set in 1950s Cyprus and London “The Summer Will Come tells […]