Susan Jones writes romantic drama with a touch of humour, and historical sagas as Lydia King. She lives in North Warwickshire, and loves walking through the beautiful woodlands where she lives, and gardening and reading are her pastimes.

Category: Something Special

  • Enjoying the September writing magazine. Full of great articles by lots of great writers, some of whom follow my blog, and others who’s blogs I follow. I’m sure the man with the red pen would change that sentence. It’s great to see the president still writing his column. When I had the writing magazine, years…

  • Well, here we are going in to September. We’ve just got back from a relaxing weekend in Wales. Picking up Mum in law from Alan’s brothers, yesterday morning, then we had first class fish and chips on the prom in Barmouth. She was glad to have a sit down and relax, and we did the…

  • Time to catch up with garden news. It’s that gorgeous time when you can hear bees buzzing, butterflies are dancing; fluttering across the broccoli, and it doesn’t matter a bit, because the garden wouldn’t be the same without those paper white delicate beauties, after all, they lay caterpillars on nasturtiums, and then the baby sparrows…

  • I couldn’t resist giving you an extra giggle for August. My two weeks training for my new job is done, and now I’m going into the main room with the others. For the last hour on Friday, I went in there with a teacher by my side, so when the phone rang on Saturday lunch…

  • Here we are, going into August already. My new job is going well so far. I’m now taking phone calls, with the assistant manager sitting by my side with those dual headphones on. It’s a bit like when you learn to drive, and you have dual pedal control. Next week, I’ll be live, so looking…

  • I’m on face book now. It’s because at work, we get asked a lot of questions about face book, so I need to be on there in some form, so here is where you can find me. Sue on face book. Pop in and say hello sometime. The new job is going well, and still…

  • When you write fiction, have you ever tried writing about a place that does exist, but you haven’t been to? I understand the rule of writing what we know, but fiction is made up, so with all the resources available to us nowadays, why not write about somewhere you haven’t been? Elizabeth George in Writing…

  • Here’s me having a go at e.publishing. Notice that it’s a story, not a novel My e – story for children. Take a look here Alex, the boy in the story is nine years old. It’s aimed at children around that age. Then again, I love all children’s stories. It’s an adventure story; one that…

  • I’m thrilled to be able to tell you about the launch of :- ‘Came as ‘me, left as we’ A collection of beach reads, ideal for when you get time to relax. My story ‘Pier into the Future’ along with lots of other great stories, makes this anthology one for your summer-time reading. All your…

  • So, we’re into July, time for the giggle blog. I can giggle now, but when our job advisor told us we needed to look for 30 jobs a week, something didn’t seem right. I ended up sending for the same job twice in some instances. It was during a tea break at my computer class…