Millennium Seed Banks, Forests and Flowers: part four of my ‘jolly.’

Today I’m sharing more photos and little snippets of information from my fabulous week away to celebrate my birthday earlier in March. I hope you’ve enjoyed the first three parts of my wonderful experience.  Welcome to part four of my birthday ‘jolly,’ Early one morning I started on my walk through the grounds, gardens, and manor house at Wakehurst Place in Sussex.  Being early March, Spring had not […]

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Guest Author with Paula Roscoe: Friday 21st February 2014

 I am honoured to be the Guest Author over on Paula Roscoe’s blog and I hope you will visit her blog and stay a while. http://www.pjroscoe.co.uk/?page_id=258 I am chatting about my writing and the stories I have had included in three anthologies in the last two years, all in aid of various charities. Whilst there I do hope you will read her blog and other interviews which are very interesting and enjoyable. Please leave her a comment and me too; all feedback is appreciated. And Don’t forget that l also have a Flash Fiction story, Friends,  over on Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog, on 21st February as well. http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/flash-fiction-friday-125-friends-by-jane-Risdon

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In A Word: Murder – Paperback version in USA/UK available

I am thrilled to announce that as from 14th February 2014 the Crime Anthology In  A Word: Murder  – which features two of my short stories – is available not only on Kindle but is now available in Paperback. You cannot have failed to notice that this book is in aid of a wonderful charity, The Princess Alice Hospice, and is in memory of Maxine Clarke, Crime Author, Blogger and Editor. My father died in a Hospice in 1987 and the care he received was second to none.  British Hospices are funded solely from donations and so I am very proud to be associated with raising funds for yet another worthy cause such as this Hospice. Featuring the contributions from Seven Crime authors from around the world: Martin Edwards, Margot Kinberg, Pamela Griffiths, Paula K Randall, Sarah Ward and me. Illustration is by Lesley Fletcher There is bound to be something for everyone. The USA Paperback version is available via http://www.amazon.com/dp/1495931684/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_vx6.sb15V2W6V7KJ The USA Kindle version is available via  http://www.amazon.com/In-Word-Murder-An-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00GFXNZYE/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1383674275&sr=8-8&keywords=in+a+word%3A+murder  The UK Paperback version is available via http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1495931684/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_FC6.sb0RABYAV The UK Kindle is available via http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Word-Murder-An-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00GFXNZYE/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1383674321&sr=8-12&keywords=In+word+Murder Let me whet your appetite a little: Hollywood Cover Up: English girl Tuppence Powell is working in Hollywood as an Estate manager for the ‘Movers and Shakers,’ of the Entertainment Business when she witnesses something which leads to her being ‘let go.’  She needs money badly and decides to write a book about her life but soon she is forced into hiding; everyone wants to find her, including the […]

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I may be some time……

Those of you who kindly visit with me here on a regular basis will know the saga of the fall down my sister’s stairs Boxing Day 2012 and the damage done to my shoulder and collar-bone as a result. You will have heard how I have been waiting all year for a series of operations to mend the broken shoulder (rotary cuff) and […]

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