What a weekend!  I was very lucky to go to the Eden Sessions in Cornwall - a wonderfully relaxed music event held at the Eden Project among the extra-terrestrial looking greenhouse domes.  My friends, talented musicians Jack Johnson and Ben Howard were both playing, which made the evening even more special.  Ben is poised to launch onto the world stage and played as a precursor to Jack, who brought the magic of Hawaii, my favourite place in the world, to a very hot but chilled out day.  I may...
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Last week I finally had the pleasure of writing 'The End' of my new novel.  I've been working on it for the past few months but the final weeks were intense.  I tend to become so engrossed in the characters and the story that I am living, breathing and dreaming it in the final stages.  I had storylines and words whirling around my head and I kept waking up at 3am to scribble notes to myself.  I think I was driving Gabe mad!
I wrote 30,000 words in 3 days before popping the champagne, printing ...
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