by Nikki Vallance | Feb 28, 2018 | The Spine is Mine |
Creative Inspiration in a Cemetery On a crisp winter afternoon in late February we drive through the gates to Foster Hill Road Cemetery, a little late for our appointment. A well known mapping tool under-estimated our journey time by about ten minutes, eating into the...
by Nikki Vallance | Mar 9, 2017 | The Spine is Mine |
They say a good writer should also be a good reader, so I suppose I must have been off to a good start when I had already learnt to read before beginning school. In those days Ladybird books, in the Peter and Jane series were the bread and butter for early readers. On...
by Nikki Vallance | Dec 7, 2016 | The Spine is Mine |
THE WRITERS’ POD PRESENTS…TOULA Toula is a successfully self-published author, with several books already under her belt. I met with her recently in a coffee shop, on behalf of The Writers’ Pod, to gain insight into her world and the self publishing option. We shared...
by Nikki Vallance | Mar 1, 2016 | The Spine is Mine |
Quit Being a Lonely Writer – Live a little When people ask me “What do you do?” I answer with confidence, mixed with a smidgen of bravado, “I am a writer.” It still gives me a thrill to hear myself say the words out loud. Usually the conversation then goes one of two...
by Nikki Vallance | Mar 25, 2015 | The Spine is Mine |
I recently discovered I had not been shortlisted for the Writers & Artists short story competition on the theme of Joy. Far from being a blow, happily this means I am now free from the associated publishing restrictions. There is an added bonus; the timely...
