Author Diana Jackson
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5 star Review from UntoldReads.com!
Happy New Year to you all! My first resolution is to finish the sequel to MISSING Past and Present and what better encouragement for me to do so is to receive such an accolade from UntoldReads.com: “A literary gem that flawlessly combines beauty, complexity and profound depth of life, Diana Jackson’s ‘Missing Past and Present’ is narrated…
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After Inspiration comes Planning~ Ideas on how to plan a novel
I was scrolling through my draft blog posts with the idea of deleting some of them when I came across this one on planning. Although it was first drafted in 2014 it is as pertinent today as it was then and interesting to see how my methods adapted and matured with each novel. How do…
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A Recent Trip to Alderney
Following lock down I was determined to pay a visit to Alderney, the main setting for my Riduna series and birth place of Great Great Grandmother Harriet. (see family history post) It was lovely to catch on with Paul Davies who used to run the Alderney Bookshop and became a dear friend following the book…
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Diana Mary Jackson (1958) ~ Alderney
How the island of Alderney Stole my Heart This is my final post on our family history, showing how Alderney has been indelibly imprinted upon my soul. Since I have no children I am the end of the line on this part of our family tree, which is one reason why, even though married, I…
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Arthur Walter Jackson and Daisy Clara Colmer 1897-1981
My grandpa Arthur Jackson was born on 30th November 1896 on the island of Guernsey. Here he is on the 1901 Guernsey census at the age of four, just before the family moved to Wooston Southampton. The reason for the move was that work had literally dried up for his father, who was a painter…
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The Joy of Author Talks
On Wednesday I took a trip out to the far reaches of Fife, to the wee town of Auchtermuchty. I think I can even roll my ch’s and pronounce this lovely name correctly. It is set in beautiful, I was going to say rolling countryside, making the journey from where I live quite enjoyable. If…
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Personal Writing Hopes, Dreams and Plans for 2023
Looking Back before Moving Forward Go Wide! ~ Looking at the goals I set out at this time last year and reflecting on what I have achieved. ~ I have gone wide with Murder Now and Then and it is now available on Kobo, Google and Apple ~ in fact so many more sites. Click…
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Islands of Inspiration (6) Guernsey and Jersey
This is my penultimate post on my series of islands of inspiration this year; a quick hop from one to the other to explain what these beautiful islands mean to me and my writing. In order to travel on from Alderney to France it isn’t impossible to take a ferry direct, which would make sense…