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Donna Collins

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Ghosts And All Things Scary

The Ghost in the Chimney:

True Crime

Dick Turpin: The Devil of Epping Forest

Borley Rectory: A Tale of Hauntings and Scepticism

Ghosts And All Things Scary

Borley Rectory: A Tale of Hauntings and Scepticism

White House Farm: The Murders That Still Divide Britain

True Crime

White House Farm: The Murders That Still Divide Britain

So You Want To Be An Author? Series

So You Want To Be An Author? Part Eight – 3-Act Structure

So You Want To Be An Author? Series

So, You Want To Be An Author? Part Seven– Plotting

Filming

Fast Rewrite or End of the Road?

30 Second Interview With….

30 Second Interview with…..Piper Bayard

Writing

Novel Layouts – Getting It Right

Writing

British Invasion: Donna Newton Chats about English

Other Stuff

Animal Love…. Or Just Plain Craziness?

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Hitchhikers. Are You Brave Enough?

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The Name’s Bond. James Bond.

Guest Bloggers

Let Readers Hear The Words You Write

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How Do You Travel To Work?

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Our Naughty Pets……Named And Shamed

Guest Bloggers

Authors and piracy: eBooks on the high seas

Other Stuff

And, The Final Curtain Comes Down On The Olympics

Other Stuff

Twenty Five Years Can Make All The Difference.

Writing

Words Are Words, But Grammar Is Grammar.

Other Stuff

WARNING: Read only if you want to feel intelligent

Classes, Competitions and Writing Opportunities

Classes, Competitions and Writing Opportunities Round Up #36

Other Stuff

Using Pictures? Risk A Law Suit.

Handing It Over

The Best of the Best – Handing It Over to Ewelina Rymsza

So You Want To Be An Author? Series

So, You Want To Be An Author Part Six – Character Building

Handing It Over

The Best of the Best – Handing It Over to Nigel Blackwell

Other Stuff

Texting For Adults

WANA Teaching

Do you ‘WANA’ Learn to Write?

Classes, Competitions and Writing Opportunities

Classes, Competitions and Writing Opportunities Round Up #35

Writing

How To Hook An Agent….The ‘SOO’ Publishing Way

Ghosts And All Things Scary

The Ghost in the Chimney:

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November 30, 2025

A Christmas Haunting at The Bear Inn, Stock, Essex THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE The Bear Inn sits proudly on Stock’s village green. Inside, the pub is a patchwork of low ceilings, uneven floorboards, and ancient brickwork. Locals will tell you it’s the beating heart of the community — a place where weddings are toasted, […]
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True Crime

Dick Turpin: The Devil of Epping Forest

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October 31, 2025

Fact and Folklore Intertwined in Essex’s Darkest Woodland Night falls thick and heavy over Epping Forest. The ancient trees close ranks, their gnarled limbs creaking like gallows in the wind. Somewhere beyond the ridges of High Beech, a horse’s hooves echo faintly on the old coaching road. Locals say that if you linger long enough, […]
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Ghosts And All Things Scary

Borley Rectory: A Tale of Hauntings and Scepticism

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Donna Collins

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October 2, 2025

Tucked beside a quiet church in the tiny Essex hamlet of Borley once stood a sprawling Gothic pile that newspapers breathlessly crowned “the most haunted house in England.” Borley Rectory has been gone for more than eighty years, but the stories it incubated – nuns walking at twilight, phantom coaches rattling past hedgerows, messages scrawled […]
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