Greetings to all of you – I hope you have managed to keep warm this month! After a lovely Christmas holiday, I thought I would send a belated Christmas gift – an excerpt from my newest novel, The Reluctant Author. I am at the halfway point and very excited to know what you think! “With little […]
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle “Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge “It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the […]
“Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and the ‘dead months’ will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.” – Fiona Macleod, Where the Forest Murmurs “Why, what’s the matter, that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” – […]
“The hiss was now becoming a roar—the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow—but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.” – Conrad Aiken, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author “January is here, with eyes that keenly glow. A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.” – […]
