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SEPTEMBER 2011

Holiday over - back to work!

My interviews with Ray Hollingsworth and Naima Mora are on the Spike Magaziine website and can be viewed by clicking on the other websites tab at the top of this page.

Writing has resumed for my third novel: Fear of the Market Place and advice has come in the wonderful form of Sir Martin Gilbert and his book Atlas of the Holocaust. Sir Martin has also kindly agreed to talk about setting up an interview about his remarkable life next year when his workload settles down a little.
I urge you all to check out Sir Martin's website: www.martingilbert.com

AUGUST 2011

The last couple of months have been swallowed up by work. The interviews as mentioned in June with Ray and Naima are complete, and should be in Spike Magazine sometime in September.
 
My short story - Ellen's Journey - has been accepted for publication in the anthology to be released by Bluewood Publishing in time for Christmas.

A novel that I wrote about eight years ago (Worlds Apart) has been revitalised and renewed in full. I'm very excited about it and am spending most of my time polishing and editing it to the highest standard - watch this space!

I have also come across a website from Harper Collins where would-be authors can showcase their work. Worlds Apart is up for full view and can be found at this link: http://www.authonomy.com/books/36314/worlds-apart/

It's just under three weeks until myself and the better half take a well earned break in Lanzarote where I fully intend to give my typing fingers a break and catch up on some reading!

JUNE 2011

In continuing my work with Spike Magazine, I was given an awesome oppertunity to review a new book by local author Ray Hollingsworth. Ray is a published poet and author of IPSWICH ZERO 6, an alternative insight into the Suffolk murders. The book has been read, verdict: excellent. A mixture of Ray's personal experiences with the street workers of Ipswich, on a friendship and client basis, his poetry and a film script. I am soon to be arranging to meet Ray in person and the interview will be published on the Spike website.

Also coming up, an interview with Naima Mora, previously of America's Next Top Model fame and more recently vocaslist of rock band Galaxy of Tar. In our correspondence so far, Naima is as lovely and courteous as she came across on the television, and I'm fully intending to keep her to her word of meeting up when she tours in the UK.

As well as these exciting and very different interviews, my work continues writing for www.offersboutique.co.uk This month I am writing an article to celebrate the 40th birthday of Luxury English designer MULBERRY. Watch this space and in the meantime, all current articles can be viewed under the Offers Boutique tab.

MAY 2011

In research for my newest novel I have commited myself to reading all that I can and from every viewpoint books on the Holocaust.

So far the books completed are:
In Mania's Memory by Lisa Hobbs-Birnie
Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart
Dachau by KG Bailey
The Man who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey
Holocaust Journey by Sir Martin Gilbert.

I have several on order from the local library, and as my book is set in the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp it is books that mention this camp that I am most eager to read.

The Holocaust is an event that must NEVER be repeated. A lot of Holocaust survivors say that they can see how it starts; an uprising against a particular race or religion can turn into horrific events that in turn make previously "normal" people savage.

The Holocaust saw the death of over six million jews, but it wasn't only the Jewish that were targeted. Gypsies, homosexuals and mentally and physically disabled people were slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands. My book will be a tribute to every single life that was taken, and a reminder that it can never happen again.

Racial intolerance or religious ignorance must be stamped out NOW. The more we teach our children and the next generation about the horrors of the Holocaust, the more likely it is that we will never again witness such an atrocity on humankind.