I get a lot of emails from various writers and publishers asking me to talk about their book on my blog, and I noticed an interesting trend in my inbox recently. I've had quite a few requests from self published female authors who've written books about growing up in abusive homes or about the stories …
Continue reading Book Trend: Women Self-Publishing Stories of Abusive Childhoods.
I felt really awkward when I started my Gratitude Journal. They're kind of a big thing right now. You can use them in different ways, but they work on the essential idea that grateful people are happier, live longer, have less health problems, all that kind of thing. They're basically great for your mental health …
Continue reading New Year, New You? Try Gratitude Journaling.
When I was a kid, my Mum made a lot of our clothes. I know that when she was growing up, she sometimes made her own clothes, too. She made her own wedding dress. My grandmother knew her way around a sewing machine too. Her clothes were pretty incredible actually. My point is this: …
Continue reading Wardrobe Inspiration: Would you paint your whole house pink?
When I was really small, my family lived in Victoria, my parents and me, and my older brother. My grandparents lived in Sydney, and because we lived so far away, they didn't see us much at that age. My grandmother, being the creative person that she was, used to write stories for my brother and …
Continue reading Christmas: Cassette Tapes, Storytime and My Grandmother
This post first appeared on TinyLetter.com, which is a service which I use to send more personal letter-like mailings to my readers. It's a look into the more personal side of my life, so you have to be signed up to read them. All you need is an email address to get on this mailing …
Have you signed up to my Tiny Letters yet? TinyLetter.com allows me to send out more personal emailed letters to you, my readers, about my life, my thoughts, ...anything. If you like my blog, but would like something more internal and personal, this is the sign up for you. Go to: https://tinyletter.com/CravenWild and enter your email. I …
In 20's and 30's Barcelona, David Martin is a teenager whose father has died, and who works in a newspaper office. When his short stories make the back page, he's launched on a career as a writer of lurid, crowd pleasing fiction, but he has a dream of writing something more literary. While he makes …
Poetry is a funny thing. It's kind of forced on us in school, and becomes something we love or hate, something that bores us to tears or moves us deeply. It's also something that, well, a lot of modern hipsters like to think they're poets, right? Poems are a lot like man-buns, lumberbeards, Mac laptops …
This week I haven't been up to much out in the real world, which has been hard, because it's London Fashion Week, and the BFI is also hosting the London Film Festival right now, so there's loads going on. But no, I have been staying in all this month and working hard. It's Zero Draft …
Continue reading Writing Month, and Helping A Friend Start Her Blog!
Every now and then people will wrinkle an eye brow at me and ask about my accent. They usually guess Canadian, but I'm Australian. It's almost always followed up with questions about why I'm crazy enough to have moved from paradise to London... A week or two ago I wrote a bit about how I …
Continue reading My life as a writer and blogger…and why I hate the phrase “you’re so lucky”.
