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My debut novel The Second Love Of My Life was first published here in the UK a year ago today! It was a dream come true to hold the book in my hands and see it on the book shelves. And it still is. I still receive messages from readers who have enjoyed the… Continue reading Happy Bookiversary To Me!
I can't believe March is over already and Spring is here. I turned 34 this month and I can't believe that either. Sometimes time is a scary thing. It definitely scares me when I look at my pile of books to be read and how little time I have to get through them all! … Continue reading Books read in March 2017
Last night, I made my way to London Town for the Romantic Novelists' Association Awards as my novel The Second Love Of My Life was on the shortlist for the Contemporary Romance award. Here are all the books in my category: The professional photos with the other nominees: Obligatory pre-event selfie: … Continue reading The RoNA awards 2017
First of all - happy World Book Day everyone! A perfect day to look back on the books I read in February I think. It wasn't a bumper book month for me. I was concentrating on editing my own book but I managed to read three novels and one non-fiction - a humorous self-help… Continue reading Books read in February 2017
This week, my year of positivity has hit shaky ground. Fed up of worrying about health issues and not focusing as much as I wanted to on editing my new book, I've not been in the best frame of mind. I wish I didn't find it so hard to stay positive when weeks go this… Continue reading How do you put positivity into action?
I was wondering what to post next in my Year Of Positivity series when it was announced that my debut novel The Second Love Of My Life has been shortlisted for an award! It is shortlisted for The 2017 Contemporary Romantic Novel Award by The Romantic Novelists Association. Here's the announcement in The Bookseller: … Continue reading Celebrating the small (and the big!)
A new year means new books hurrah! I want to read a few more nonfiction books this year as well as my usual pile of novels, and I've made a start on that this month. Here are all the books I read in January. The novels are on the left and the non-fiction on the… Continue reading Books read in January 2017
I have been writing about how to stay positive this year and continuing the series, I thought it would be interesting for us to talk about what we can do when we have a day when positivity runs away. It's inevitable that there will be both good days and bad days during our year of… Continue reading When Positivity Runs Away
This year I decided my main New Year's resolution would be to be more positive (https://victoria-writes.com/2017/01/05/the-year-of-positivity/) so I've been thinking since about the ways I can do this. It's not easy to always be positive. Life gets in the way. I am still battling my overactive thyroid and some days it's hard not to… Continue reading Focusing on Goals
The first book I read this year was The Secret by Rhonda Bryne. The premise of the book is that we all have the power to have everything we want in life, we just need to ask the universe for it, believe we will get it and visualise already having it and then it… Continue reading The Year of Positivity
