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‘Notification from Ms Paige Turner …’

28/08/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Notification from Ms Paige Turner …’ by Jan Moran Neil Hi, If you have come through the link www.janmoranneil.co.uk/blog then please know: I have moved my blog to Substack as for some reason, known on another planet, the blog subscriber button here has ceased to work, having been fine since 2010. All you need to […]

‘Whistling in the Ocean Wind as We Send Our Words Out …’

17/08/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Whistling in the Ocean Wind as We Send Our Words Out …’ by Ms Paige Turner A bunch of my former Creative Ink students invited me to come and speak to them about RF Kuang’s novel ‘Yellow Face’. I have read the book and I have listened to Rebecca, the author speaking about it. She […]

‘Klara’s Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro and ‘My Trips Around the Sun’.

01/08/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Klara’s Sun’ by Kazuo Ishiguro and ‘My Trips Around the Sun’ by Ms Paige Turner Klara in Ishiguro’s ‘Klara’s Sun’ is an AF: Artificial Friend. I probably need one myself, not because I fear my own mind is yet deteriorating but because my blog is and I don’t know how to ‘fix’ it. The subscriber […]

‘The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth’

01/07/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth …’ at the Harold Pinter Theatre was just brilliant. I did have to buy a copy of the play to read as some of the performance was inaudible and unseeable due to high-piled hairstyles. Set in both the fifties and the seventies, it focuses on four sisters who […]

‘Getting to Grips with the Novel – or a Book of Any Kind: poetry, short stories, memoir and On the Radio …’

13/06/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Getting to Grips with the Novel – or a Book of any Kind: Short Stories, Poetry Collection or Memoir and I’m on the Radio’ I’m going to be teaching this in one day: at Gerrards Cross for the Buckinghamshire Adult Learning on Saturday 6th July. Contact studentenquiries@buckinghamshire.gov.uk A tall order, I know but I do […]

‘D-Day’ by Ms Paige Turner

06/06/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘D-Day’ by Ms Paige TurnerI am two blogs behind because:1. I’ve been busy finishing my eighteen-month project narrating and uploading my two novels and poetry to Amazon Audible. The novel ‘Blackberry Promises’ has been re-published by Creative Ink Publishing. Blackberry Promises – a back street stabbing changes the lives for five young people in the […]

‘Voyager 2 and Jan’s Epic Voyage …’

27/04/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Voyager 2 and Jan’s Epic Voyage …’ by Ms Paige Turner Voyager 2 left the Earth over forty-six years ago, in 1977, to travel to our distant ice planets 12.7 billion miles from Earth and collect scientific data. Just recently it has been sending back gobbledygook: maybe it had been knocking back some fine red. […]

Undelivered Mail

07/04/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

‘Undelivered Mail …’ by Ms Paige Turner To my horror, I have just discovered that my emails are going into most people’s Junk Mail. This is easily remedied if one has a small mailing list but I have 700 writers on mine: 700 people who have physically (how else could they do this?) given me […]

On the Radio …

26/03/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

My Amazon Audible excerpt of my recorded novel ‘Shakespeare’s Clock’ was featured on BBC Radio on Thursday 14th March. (Sorry about the delay but I have been busy recording the next novel ‘Blackberry Promises’ for Amazon Audible.) The show is BBC Radio Berkshire (And it’s across quite a few counties) – Upload at 6-8pm on […]

‘Shakespeare’s Clock’ on Amazon Audio

08/03/2024 // by Jan Moran Neil

Having written and recorded my poetry collection ‘Red Lipstick & Revelations’ published by Indigo Dreams and recorded the Audio to Amazon, I embarked upon recording my novel Shakespeare’s Clock published by Cranthorpe Millner and have now uploaded this to Amazon Audio. This is the link. Shakespeare’s Clock You can sample a free taster just by […]