The Advent of Emazon
A portmanteau, in linguistics, is the merging of two words. Today, I felt the need to coin a portmanteau. I took ‘Emily’ and ‘Amazon’ and made ‘Emazon’. Emazon. Probably not the...
T(h)eresa and Me
As I looked around the Hall, I saw the people behind the doors. The people who read the words I’d once pushed through their letterboxes. This was my seventh book,...
Being Beethoven
Here’s a blog I wrote after winning an award at CRT recently: Being Beethoven...
Tableu-ing Together
Stratford-upon-Avon is a favourite place of mine. It was there, back in 2001, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) – another favourite place of mine – that I nearly missed checking one...
The Month of May
Between the ages of about 6 and 10, May Day (otherwise known as May 1st) meant one thing for me: Maypole. No, I don’t mean the nickname occasionally given to...