Creative Ink for Writers

19/10/2024

I'm so proud of this boy Marcberry - who once was the chip boy in my play 'Blackberry Promises' and now he has a Music Lab on Amersham High www.mdmusiclab.co.uk music tuition for all ages. Grand Opening today - fantastic stuff, Marc. Loved the energy.

02/10/2024

For National Poetry Day - tomorrow - Thursday 3rd October - I'm reading 'Death of an Actress' from my audio collection 'Red Lipstick & Revelations'.
The show is BBC Upload on BBCs Berkshire, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Oxford and Solent - Upload at 6-8pm on 95.4 FM, 104.1 FM, on Digital, BBC Sounds and here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0805r6w

It will also be repeated from 6pm on Saturday.

16/09/2024

Here's our holiday snaps, taken in the Bronte Country, Haworth, Yorkshire and at Blackberry Cottage (of course) with lovely Trev and Jane, Top Withins ('Wuthering Heights'), and then Harrogate for our 39 years' wedding anniversary at Betty's Cream Teas. To subscribe to my blog for free! go here https://substack.com/ or just go to my website of the same name as janmoranneil and hit on BLOG.

31/08/2024

From 7 to 70. What a magical day that was yesterday and what a magical group we are. Oval Road Primary School. 1959-1965. Adrian Spalding third on the right of these handsome gentlemen was my co-editor on 'When This is All Over ...' our pandemic anthology for the Rennie Grove Hospice and available on Amazon. Sorry. Can't help plugging ...

29/08/2024

Post-Covid and post A Day at the Zoo. Passing over to the parents ...
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14/06/2024

BBC Three Counties. I was on first thing at 6.00 pm yesterday evening (Thursday 13th June). 'Blackberry Promises' Prologue Audio. Many thanks to Leo Ulph. Here's the link to Listen Again. But it's also on this Saturday evening.
Upload at 6-8pm on 95.4 FM, 104.1 FM, on Digital, BBC Sounds and here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0805r6w

It will also be repeated from 6pm on Saturday.

11/06/2024

I'm on BBC Four Counties again this Thursday evening 6-8 pm with me narrating the opening of my novel 'Blackberry Promises' which is available in hard copy and in audio on Amazon Audible. The show is BBC Radio Berkshire (Also across Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Oxford and Solent) - Upload at 6-8pm on 95.4 FM, 104.1 FM, on Digital, BBC Sounds and here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0805r6w

It will also be repeated from 6pm on Saturday.

30/05/2024

The audio of my novel and the updated and re-published paperback version Blackberry Promises are available here Blackberry Promises on Amazon. I have now completed an eighteen-month project recording, editing and uploading this and my novel Shakespeare’s Clock and poetry collection Red Lipstick & Revelations. Phew …
You can listen to samples by the covers before purchasing. Scroll down on the right-hand side for the cost and to buy. Regarding Blackberry Promises, my Aida and Zelda Mabs are good, my Mabs is even reasonable but my Des and Gary Papanikalou are dismal. Just not the same without those young actors, who now, are, amazingly forty and onwards …

30/05/2024

The audio of my novel and the updated and re-published paperback version 'Blackberry Promises' are now available on Amazon. Just punch in 'Blackberry Promises'. I have now completed an eighteen-month project recording, editing and uploading this and my novel 'Shakespeare’s Clock' and poetry collection 'Red Lipstick & Revelations'. Phew …
You can listen to samples by the covers before purchasing. Scroll down on the right-hand side for the cost and to buy. Regarding Blackberry Promises, my Aida and Zelda Mabs are good, my Mabs is even reasonable but my Des and Gary Papanikalou are dismal. Just not the same without those young actors, who now, are, amazingly forty and onwards …

27/05/2024

COURSE/WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Adult Learning Workshops – 2024
Saturday 8th June at Beaconsfield – ‘Life Writing – a Memoir for Your Grandchild, Posterity or Publication’.
Saturday 6th July at Gerrards Cross – ‘Getting to Grips with the Novel’.
Saturday 12th October at Highcrest – ‘Humour – Writing Which Raises a Smile’.
Saturday 9th November at Beaconsfield – ‘Writing for Children’.
2025
Saturday 29th March at Highcrest – ‘Poetry with a Pen and a Passion’
Saturday 26th April at Gerrards Cross – ‘Getting to Grips with the Novel’
Monday 2nd June at Beaconsfield – ‘Life Writing – a Memoir for Your Grandchild, Posterity or Publication’.
Contact: [email protected]

02/05/2024

So here I am again on Wycombe Sound Radio rabbiting on about my novel 'Shakespeare's Clock' on Amazon Audible and upcoming workshops for Bucks Adult Learning: Poetry at Highcrest/Saturday 25th May, Life Writing at Beaconsfield/Saturday 8th June and Getting to Grips with the novel at Gerrards Cross/Saturday 6th July. Here's the link to Mid-Morning with Colin Besley interview and me spouting my written words and selling my wares. Well. Why not?

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