writer Archives - Tracey Gemmell

Lights, Camera, Relax!

by Exmoor1 | Jul 31, 2023 | book promotion, British humour, Humour, writer, writing

Lights, Camera, Relax! Ah, the glamorous life of an author. It mostly involves years sitting alone in a room with a judgmental empty page, a head full of ideas, and a cosmic void separating the two. Occasionally it involves a photoshoot. And that, for me, is where...

Is Coincidence a Literary Sin?

by Exmoor1 | Mar 31, 2023 | writer, writing

I’ve been promising to publish my third novel, working title ‘Life Like Lavender’, for a couple of years now. My transatlantic relocation and that small matter of a global pandemic got in the way of my timetable. (Hopefully I can use those excuses for a while longer.)...

Finding Myself Online. Or Not.

by Exmoor1 | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, search for home, Travel, writer, writing

Mission: Identify twelve search keywords that would lead others to find you online. Go. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Am waiting… Okay, two keywords. Can you come up with two? I know, right? It’s really hard. But that’s what I have to do as part of a website redesign project...

Editing Books and Gardens

by Exmoor1 | Mar 31, 2022 | Blog Post, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Humor, Humour, relocation, search for home, writer, writing

Last week I received The Email. Yes, THAT email. The one from the editor that filled me with both crippling anxiety and spine-tingling excitement. Attached to said email was the edited manuscript for my third novel, entitled Life Like Lavender. Anyone who’s undergone...

Even Exmoor Walls Can’t Keep Crazy at Bay

by Exmoor1 | Dec 30, 2021 | British, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Humor, Humour, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Travel, writer, writing

My Exmoor home sits in the middle of a secret garden, which in turn is surrounded by an old stone wall, over six feet high. Not exactly Hadrian’s Wall but it still provides a private, sheltered, safe space. Inside these walls, it’s an oasis of calm, protection against...

From Wanderluster to Upcycling Homebody and Dove Whisperer

by Exmoor1 | Aug 31, 2021 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, British, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Humor, Humour, Living abroad, relocation, repatriation, search for home, Transatlantic, writer

And just like that, the end of summer speeds at us like a tourist heading for the last table at an inundated cream tea shop. It’s been a weird old summer, hasn’t it: part supposedly post-pandemic, part not sure, part ‘no, we’re definitely not out of the woods yet’....