Louise's Love of Life

Happy Halloween! I've got my candy, my costume, my scary-night-in TV schedule all planned... now, what else? Oh yes! Dressing up my...

  Happy almost-Halloween!   For the next 48 hours, I'm giving you the chance to download Strange Ideas: Death, Destiny and Deci...

How was your weekend? Mine was an exciting one: not only did I get to meet up with one of my favourite indie authors and all-round top bi...

...or "To Be Read" pile, for those of you not in the Goodreads loop. Due to a clearout of the former village library, where th...

The Memory of a Salt Shaker by Bernard M. Cox My rating: 5 of 5 stars A lovely short story where a widower ex...

The Game by Terry Schott My rating: 5 of 5 stars What a fantastic idea! Maybe I'm more sympathetic to thi...

Yes, it's that time of year again! Only two weeks to go until NaNoWriMo kicks off and I frantically tap-tap 50,000 words in 30 days (...

  Frost crept under her toes, the dying grass prickling her tanned, bare feet. The sky darkened and cast long shadows over the fields w...

Happy Friday, people! Now, although the weather may not be behaving like August (in fact, I swear it went from June straight to Septem...

Housework. Ugh. Not my favourite thing but, being too poor for a cleaner and too single for a house-husband, a necessary task. Or is it?...