Janet Cameron

Time for Everything - Image by Janet Cameron Is it hard to find time to write? Get organised and make it happen. A few small changes can help you to finish what you have started. ‘Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?’ says Alice Munro in her short story, "Powers." Most people make time for what they really want to do, but somehow writing’s different. You want to write. Ideas are sizzling in your head like overdone bacon. But there’s that sense of guilt about taking time off from urgent tasks to do something that pays little or nothing. There’s also the spare room to paint, the bank statements to check and the cooker’s begging for a damn good clean. There are two issues here, the first is practical, the second abstract. (a) Careful planning to garner those extra few hours every week to pursue your creative urges t...

Is it possible to want someone so badly, love someone so strongly, so overwhelmingly, you'd be willing to sell your soul to the devil to have him? This is Mitzi Szereto's own distinctive take on the Faustian legend. Her short story, "Hell is Where the Heart Is," is irreverent with dialogue as sharp as the devil's pitchfork. Szereto is a pioneer of the form and, let's face it, it takes courage to pioneer erotic fiction, so often confused with pornography and sleaze. Copyright: Mitzi Szereto Even people who don't much care for erotica find something to praise in Szereto's work, as Jill Murphy of the Bookbag says in her review of a previous anthology, Dying for it: Tales of Sex and Death , edited by Szereto. "Groan. Erotica is really not my thing... It's all so crass." However, Miss Murphy concedes the book has something to offer, indeed that she loves the Szereto story in the collection. "I enjoyed it mightily," ...

The Show Went Down a Bomb!  Photo by Gareth Cameron. Differences in expressing ourselves can depend on culture and environment and on certain character traits that evolve as part of our national heritage. The influence of culture upon the variations in language used between America and Britain is raised in The Oxford Manual of Style. The (anonymous) author offers the following explanation: “Many Britons feel more at home with botanical than medical terminology, while many Americans feel the reverse, the result being that a Briton might have a “heart attack” while planting “antirrhinums” and an American would, more likely, have a “myocardial infarction” while planting “snapdragons.” On both sides of the Atlantic, the place where you can safely cross the road can be described as a pedestrian crossing. While Americans also use the word crosswalk, Brits frequently resort to the picturesque term “zebra crossing” signifying the crossing’s black and white stripes, or even “peli...

This close encounter near a London airport suggests we are not alone. But the truth about what is actually out there is still up for debate. The term UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) was created by the United States Air Force in 1952, but before that, these strange phenomena were known as "flying saucers" due to their disc-like shape. While some of the so-called "sightings" are attributable to hoaxes, a percentage are not. Up to thirty percent are truly UFOs since experts are unable to identify them as belonging to the known world. This is not the same as saying they are aliens from another world or planet – that fascinating question is still up for debate.

Paranormal Eastbourne Review by Lionel Fanthorpe, President of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena – and a celebrity priest Monday, 04 July 2011. Paranormal Eastbourne by Janet Cameron, Published by Amberley Books PLC. Paranormal Eastbourne is everything the discerning reader would expect from an author of Janet Cameron's ability and experience.

Paranormal Brighton and Hove The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Brighton & Hove. Here you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many previously undiscovered locations.

Photo by Sylvia Kent Top Writing Tips from a Master Crime-writer: Author of three critically acclaimed detective series featuring Charles Paris 'One of the wittiest crime writers around,' says historical novelist, Antonia Fraser, in praise of versatile whodunnit author, Simon Brett. Other accolades directed at this prolific novelist and screenwriter include: 'I stayed up till three in the morning and chewed off two fingernails.' (Daily Mail) 'pure pleasure from beginning to end.' (Birmingham Post) and 'a master at subtle characterisation.' (Booklist). Surely every aspiring writer dreams of such glowing tributes from the world's media.