You know what it's like to encounter something new for the first time. There's a moment of surprise, perhaps even shock, before the eye starts roving around, exploring. What your subconscious brain is trying to do is place this 'thing'…
Author: Linda Parkinson-Hardman
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. So, if you want something about your life experience and journey to change we need to talk. With two decades experience as a transformational counsellor, coach, women's health advocate and change management consultant it's likely I've already helped someone just like you already.
In conversation with Jenny Jaeckel
Jenny Jaeckel is the author of House of Rougeaux, her debut novel, winner of an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Hisorical Fiction and was named one of Bitch Media's 25 Must Read Books of 2018; and the forthcoming companion book…
The guru, the hero, the lover and me
Back in 2012, I was a member of Toastmasters International at my local club, Casterbridge Speakers, in Dorchester. I'd written and given many speeches in the years I was there, but this is one, titled 'The guru, the hero, the…
Whose truth is it anyway?
I woke up this morning with the title of this blog post pounding a drumbeat in my head and had to write it down immediately. It was born out of a need to focus on this elusive thing we call…
Setting yourself free and finding your voice
The period between Christmas and New Year is an odd hinterland of non-doing for me. The celebrations of Christmas pause and wait until the celebrations of New Year begin. That space between one year and the next is when I…
Happy new year 2022
Darling Hilde Looking back, I knew that 2021 was going to be a corker of a year. It just felt 'right' somehow. And after all the trouble we'd had during 2020, it certainly needed to earn its keep. It was…
In conversation with Emma K Lea
How does a dyslexic become a writer? Having inspirational teachers at school helps, as does parents who won't allow it to become an excuse. Emma K Lea talks about her journey from ghostwriter to self-publisher, her work as a tutor…
Reflections on 2020
Hysteria 7 book cover competition
It's taken a few months to get to this point, but finally Hysteria 7 has been published and is ready to be unleashed on the world. As is usual at this point in the competition I'm releasing the book cover…
In conversation with Sahar Abdulaziz
When suspense writer, Sahar Abdulaziz isn’t busy plotting a stabbing, a garroting, or a murder (all on paper of course) she’s busy writing about her crew of highly-entertaining, quirky, unpredictable book characters. Some have been lovely, big-hearted, gentle souls, merely…