Here at BroadstairsLit, we are excited to announce our 2019 programme of events – featuring a dazzling array of personalities from comediennes to men of the
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Write around the Isle – turnips, thrillers and special guests
Sir Tony comes to town for BroadstairsLit There were turnips on display when Baldrick fans packed The Pavilion on 10th March to welcome Sir Tony Robinson
Write Around The Isle and BroadstairsLit
Literary gatherings have been popping up left, right and centre – I go to quite a few of them myself – and there are now
Didn’t I have a lov-er-ly time…
Another to add to my list of fab festivals I have worked for. Had a great time at the Buckingham Literary Festival last weekend, interviewing three
The Archers come to town…
So fab to host the Archers event last Friday at the Pavilion in Broadstairs with ace scriptwriter Keri Davies, the gorgeous Annabelle Dowler (Kirsty Miller),
Rum de tum ti tum de dum….. Calling all Archers fans!
Looking forward to this very much. Are you an Archers fan? Do you fancy a day trip to Broadstairs? Tickets from here . Would be brilliant
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This first appeared in Woman’s Weekly Fiction in 2010. Can’t say much has changed…. 🙂 Happy Valentine’s Day! You might think that someone who has
Jane remembers 2016
At midnight on 31st December I was travelling by car through the bottom of Broadstairs. In Ramsgate, minutes earlier, they’d been spilling out of pubs,
Champagne de Romance at Chez Castillon
It is always a joy to be at Chez Castillon. Next course up – could it be for you? – Write and Sell Short Stories. Write
Plain Jane 140815 – Bra-vellous project
If we live in a small world then Thanet is microscopic. Hold forth in the pub about the bloke from the garage and it will
Plain Jane 250714: Royalty, politics, tourism and how not to waste money
Originally published last week but I’ve been away teaching at the fabulous Chez Castillon… HAPPY Birthday Prince George and congratulations on being able to walk.
Plain Jane 300514: My view on term-time holidays
RECENT figures have shown that 24,000 children each day are taken out of school for a family trip. If I still did the school-run, it
The joy of Chez Castillon
April 2012 – the first time… You never really know someone until you live with them. A truth universally acknowledged by generations of women who’ve
How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake!
How time flies… a big hand for Carole Blake! My small tribute to the Queen of Shoes and her Fifty Years in Publishing. It was
I couldn’t have put it better myself…
A lovely blog post here from the immensely talented Clare Mackintosh (watch out for her debut novel next year – it’s going to be astonishing)
Plain Jane 280813: Everyone has a book in them…
THEY say everyone’s got a book in them and I say: Sometimes it should stay there! The explosion of ebooks and self-publishing has made everybody
Happy Birthday Morgen Bailey!
A quick post to say a Very Happy Birthday to the fabulous Morgen to whom I owe a great deal. This is the woman who
The Wannabe a Writer TV Show
Here at last…. Am all very thrilled – and not a little nervously twitchy 🙂 – to announce the launch of the first half of
Plain Jane in the Isle of Thanet Gazette from Friday 21st June
Bit late getting this up here as have been away to the Winchester Writer’s Conference where I had the enormous privilege of hearing Julian Fellowes speak!
We have a winner!!!!
100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition. Judged by Janie Millman, Morgen Bailey (and me). …. It was very, very difficult to choose. We wrangled
100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 5
Following on from last weekend’s Top 12, we are pleased to announce the creators of the Top 5 Flab-fighting tips, complete with the tips themselves, again in
Plain Jane: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation?
Plain Jane with Jane Wenham-Jones: With beaches like ours, why are we still languishing in deprivation? I BLAME my colleague Mike Pearce. I go to
100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 12
Taa-Raaa – we have the first set of results of the Fight the Flab Competition, judged by Janie Milman, co-owner of the fab Chez-Castillon, Morgen-with-an-e-Bailey
The Ab Fab ChipLitFest :-)
Well what a lov-er-ley time I had at this year’s Chipping Norton Literary Festival – a treat indeed. You would never believe the festival is
RNA & Plain Jane 1st March 2013: The sartorial choices of the stay-at-home writer
Bit lax on the old blogging front lately but will catch up soon with the excitements of Richard and Judy at the book awards –
er… not on the radio after all…
Quick one to say that they have technical problems over at Radio Litopia so I won’t be on this evening after all… Will post new
Shortlists and radio shows
There – don’t they look pretty? Prime Time with the covers of the other lovely books shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas.Very proud
Today’s Plain Jane
Hello and Happy Friday. We have progress of sorts. My column in the Isle of Thanet Gazette is finally online (hurrah) but does not yet
Overly excited and thrilled
Am suitably delighted to report that Prime Time has been shortlisted for the Romantic Comedy category of the RoNas today. This is a massive honour of
100 Ways to Fight the Flab
I know I’m a bit of a show-off but even I wouldn’t display my bottom without good reason. These photos were taken as possible cover
Top Comment-leaver of 2012…
Yes, excitement, drum roll, etc. I am pleased to announce that… Tony Tibbenham has the doubtful glory of being crowned the most-frequent-commenter on this blog in
Plain Jane. Isle of Thanet Gazette. Friday December 21st 2012
This might not make entire sense to those not blessed with living on the Isle of Thanet but perhaps you would would wish for similar for
Plain Jane: Playing the Party Season
As some of you may know, I write a fortnightly column – alternating with My-Mate-Mike (he who hovers just to the right of Genghis Khan and
Thank you Sarah Salway!
Very pleased to be featured on Sarah Salway’s website and thanks Sarah for the plug for Thursday’s event at Canterbury, Waterstones too. Also thank you Edith for
Plain Jane column 16 November – public speaking & event with Lesley Cookman
As some of you may know, I write a fortnightly column – alternating with My-Mate-Mike (he who hovers just to the right of Genghis Khan and
For those who don’t like tea…
You’ll be glad to know I have found one I don’t like either. It has to be a thumbs down for the teapigs‘ exotically-named tung
pure lemongrass, silver tips white, but no mint thank you…
I used to drink so much coffee it gave me blotches. In the decade that I gave it up entirely (I now have the odd
Tea(pig) anyone?
Those nice teapig people did a spot of sponsoring at the Guildford Book Festival – where I first discovered the teabag-with-real-tea-in-it – and have now kindly
Guildford Day Six
Yes a bit of a delay there but Saturday I was doing a workshop in HMP Send, Sunday I had taken to my bed with
Guildford Day Two
The end of the second day of Guildford Book Festival and tonight was Peter James and Ann Cleeves. Fab interviewees both – and both with
And off to Guildford….
It’s begun – I am here in my Guildford for my annual stint in the interviewing chair and. as always, thrilled at the prospect. Last
Back from Chez Castillon….
I came back on Saturday, in fact, but it took the rest of the weekend to sort the faint air of bachelor pad – why
Slacker
Am all behind on this blogging lark – as I am on so many things – but I have a small array of excuses. Been
Room for a little one…
Room, indeed, for two little ones – or even two quite big ones (bedroom sizes generous). Due to a cancellation, there are now a couple
Hot tips for Writers – am in the spotlight with Writer’s Choice
The nice people at Writer’s Choice have put me in their ‘spotlight’. Thank you PDR! 🙂 If there’s nothing much on TV, you can read
Greetings from (not-so) sunny Swanwick…
Actually it has been sunny but just happens to be p***ing down as I type. I am here at the long-running Swanwick Writers’ Summer School in
Dancing on the table…
Yes, I’m afraid I did. I wasn’t going to. Thought I’d grown out of it, and all that. But as the boys told me, it’s
A night with the choir
The last night of Writer’s Holiday is the biggie. Wonderful to see all the chaps again. Below is a quick snap of the glorious Cwmbach
Barry’s on the ball…
To my talk at Caerleon and a spot of audience participation from Barry Adams who gamely agreed to attempt to balance on my exercise ball
Greetings from Sunny Wales
And it really is sunny! Am here in Caerleon at Writer’s Holiday where yesterday people were dropping by the wayside with heat exhaustion cos nobody’s
RNA Conference at last
Did two stints at the splendid RNA conference this year, brilliantly organised as ever by Jan Jones and Roger Sanderson. On Saturday, a panel
How to lose a day….
Intended to post suitable witticisms and photos from RNA conference this morning but day went to Ratsh*t when someone drove into me necessitating endless conversations
Trying to travel light to Penrith
Off to the fabulous RNA conference – or at least I hope it will be fab – I hadn’t realised quite how far Penrith was
Loose Muse
No, I am not trying to summon the dead, lead the gospel singing or appeal to the Almighty*. This is me attempting to impart some
