Future have sent out updated contracts. I'd just like to remind everyone who has received one to read it, and to be sure they understand the terms, and agree to them BEFORE signing it.

More importantly, what have you been up to? I've mostly been editing the next Little Mallow novel, although I did pause to dash off a short story to send to My Weekly and make a submission to Ulverscroft.Have you had any successes, or other writing news?

Not only do I have an article in the July issue of Writing Magazine, which the editor attributed to ‘womag expert Patsy Collins’, my blog for writers has also been heavily quoted in thi…

Here are a few of the wonderful roses at Mottisfont Abbey gardens in Hampshire, England. This is our nearest National Trust property, so we go fairly often. It’s beautiful and romantic. I hav…

Author J Lenni Dorner. Characters, Settings, Speculative Fiction, Book Review, Legend, Myth, Storytelling, Lenape and Native American interests.

I'm still working on the next book in my crime series, and mostly resisting the urge to change it from cosy to grisly with a massive body count!

Last Saturday, I was delighted to be one of eight author’s at the Lee-on-the-Solent crime literary festival. It was great fun, and really interesting listening the the other author’s ta…

I’m delighted to have stories in both My Weekly and Woman’s Weekly, this week. That sort of thing hasn’t happened in a long time. That’s partly because, since I started work…

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