Author Archives: gin900

An exciting achievement!

I was simply carrying out my usual tutoring lesson yesterday when an email popped up my PC which sent me into an exciting spin! Not only did I become a finalist for the PAGETURNER AWARDS 2025, but I have now reached the shortlist. The email, inviting me to an online international awards ceremony told meContinue reading “An exciting achievement!”

Reviews!

I am happy to publish some of the reviews I have found on my books on Amazon. I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to leave a review so far and talk bit about why it is so important to the independent author. I have copied the Amazon onesContinue reading “Reviews!”

Second Neurodiversity Conference

ON 2nd June 2025, I was invited to be a guest speaker on the panel of the 2nd Neurodiversity Conference at HMP Warren Hill, a familiar venue. With an audience of inmates, staff and professionals 100 hundred strong, it was clearly a very important and necessary event. Neurodiversity is of a high percentage in theContinue reading “Second Neurodiversity Conference”

Prison, playacting and performing!

On March 19th, I returned to HMP Warren Hill to spend a day talking to prisoners about their experiences of prison life, from sentencing to release, and to understand some of the process, as well as hearing first-hand about their day-to day experiences. If you think that Warren Hill, a Category C prison, is anContinue reading “Prison, playacting and performing!”

‘March’-ing on in March!

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog here, on my website. There are a number of reasons for this: firstly I wrote two other blogs/article on a monthly basis. You may be aware that I write a monthly post for the award-winning Felixstowe Magazine App in the form of a column called PENspiration.Continue reading “‘March’-ing on in March!”