My number one cardinal rule is: Don’t overshare on social media. Use the trauma in your life to inform your writing. Sadly, I’m not much of a rule-follower so my life haemorrhages out into everything; my writing, my social media posts, or idle chit-chat in a supermarket queue to any stranger who is too bored or busy to move to another checkout. I have verbal diarrhoea and no filter.
I exfoliate the trivial aspects of my life, shedding mumbles of discontent as I field endless calls and tasks, managing the chaos that surrounds our foster children’s lives while I recover from major surgery following removal of a cancerous tumour from my left cheek. Sixty-two stitches, one for each year of my life, in a u-shape from below my ear to under my eye and down past my nose. It’ll heal but, in the meantime, it hurts like hell and has turned me into an inflamed older woman.
To my wife: I’m sorry. You know how much I love you.
About Tania:
Tania Almond is a Hampshire, UK based writer of contemporary women’s fiction.
Tania’s books describe the lives and loves of lesbian women in the contemporary world. Her characters’ lives are led by neurodiversity, a sense of purpose, and hope.
Tania’s writing is infused with a love of nature, women, travel and her life’s experiences: from growing up on a council estate in a shipbuilding town in Cumbria, surrounded by one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain; to working across Europe and in the European Parliament; to living on the south coast of England with her partner Cath, their foster children and two aging rescue cats, Ronnie and Ruby.
You Know When You Know was Tania’s first indie published novel, available on Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble.
She is touting Life of Riley around literary agents, which ironically is about longing for a place to call home. She is also writing An Island Romance, a lesbian romance, and researching Book of Eillish, about an aging charity worker, set in Kenya.
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