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Diana Jackson

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MISSING Past and Present

  • Diana’s August Book Review ~ The Paper Cup by Karen Campbell

    I stumbled upon this delightful novel in Waterstones and have added it to my ‘signed books’ collection, to treasure or share with others. In fact, I enjoyed it so much when I first read it a year ago that I picked it up again the other day ~ savouring its detail this time and moments…

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  • A Song of an Idea Springing from Missing Past and Present

    I’d love someone to put this song to music for me. Any offers? This looks like my husband’s guitar!

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  • Book Marketing on Allauthor

    Thinking about Book Marketing, I have recently joined Allauthor.com for publicity for a six month period. All Author gives you an author page, sends out posts on Twitter, features your books/book, sends you mock up banners to use for personal publicity and interviews you. Here’s the link to my interview. Here is one of their fantastic mock…

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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 (3) ~ Iona

    I first visited the Scottish western island of Iona, off the coast of Mull, in my 30’s on a pilgrimage with Aylesbury, St Mary’s. It was an incredible Easter experience and we stayed at the Abbey for a week ~ the likes of which I have never enjoyed since. See my original post in my…

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  • Virtual tour around Canbury Village ~ the second imaginary location for my latest novel

    Canbury village featured a great deal in MISSING Past and Present, both in the ‘Present’ story of Dot, who wandered homeless around the lanes surrounding Canbury village, only two miles walk from Drumford town centre. The walk from the town took Dot over the River Ree, through a spinney, past some allotments where Dot found…

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  • Virtual Tour around the main settings for my latest novel ~ real and imaginary

    MISSING Past and Present is unlike my previous novels because two of the main settings are imaginary. Why go to all that trouble? It challenges the imagination of the writer and the reader It will not offend a reader ~ in my murder mystery, set on my doorstep at the time in a village down…

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  • A Song of an Idea Springing from

    MISSING Past and Present Is Life Just a Roll of a Dice? My original inspiration for my latest novel was a chance finding of a dice, when walking one day. As I thought of life in terms of rolling a dice, out poured the idea for the story. Mulling this over the lyrics for a…

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