Musings from a Literary Alchemist

I have begun blogging on my author website, as I am beginning a whole new chapter of life and this blog feels more like my history than my future! This blog will remain online, so you can still find your fav recipe or post, but won’t be getting any new material, head over to michellegordon.co.uk for my new adventures! Thank you for following this blog and subscribing and reading, I love and…

Less than 4 days after I moved the last of my stuff into my storage unit, it was broken into and ransacked. They were looking for jewellery, so it was just my personal stuff that was trashed, and they took some niknaks and my charms and findings from my jewellery making kit. None of it will net them much, most of the charms were not even silver plated. Nothing in the storage was of any great…

This week I have been moving the contents of my print studio into a storage unit. In doing so, I realised that I have not had all my belongings in one place since 2008. That was when I moved to New York. I got rid of much, putting only the stuff I couldn’t sell or bear to part with in my mums loft. Since then I have moved dozens (yes, dozens) of times, with my belongings spread through homes,…

… but they don’t seem to last. I’m beginning to wonder if they are meant to? I have been most fortunate to have had several of my dreams come true, from seeing my name on a book spine, having my books sold in bookshops, living in America, having a twin flame relationship, and having a studio in one of my favourite places. But they have all been relatively short-lived, and thus relatively…

For the last year I have been blessed to have a letterpress studio at The Fold in Bransford. I have been printing magical cards, prints, posters, bookmarks etc, and running workshops. But my funding is coming to an end and it’s not making enough to sustain itself and me, so I shall be closing on the 7th July. I am making as much stock as possible so I can keep selling online…

One of my favourite movies when I was younger was 13 going on 30. My favourite bit was when this Billy Joel song is playing, and she realises that by wishing to be older, by speeding things up, she has missed out on so much, lost so much. And luckily, she has the chance to go back and do it over. But we are speeding through life at the moment, with no opportunity for do-overs. We now consume…

As I mentioned in my post a couple of days ago, in 2018, my oldest friend and I started our publishing house, Not From This Planet. But that wasn’t our first business together. Before that, we ran Purple Self Publishing, and helped authors to publish their books. But Not From This Planet was different, because we wanted to create a new, collaborative model of publishing. (Which consequently, many…

I might have said too much in my post yesterday, but as I said, my ability to pretend has gone. Whether it’s because of hormones or just getting older, or just being so tired, I don’t know. For a long time I have presented to the world a version of myself who is happy, successful, and has their shit together. But goodness that couldn’t be further than the truth. A friend asked me how my book…

What do you do when your motivation, your very reason to create, disappears? When your drive and excitement just dries up overnight, because there’s nothing pushing you onwards? You stop. In 2018, that’s exactly what happened for me. I lost my reason to write. But to explain what my reason was, I need to go back to the start. I distinctly remember, in my early teens, when I had already read…

Chapter Two “Good morning,” she replied with a smile, studying his face on the screen. His grey eyes with dark flecks, the dimple in his left cheek, the tiny scar on his chin, all reminded her of her dream. She closed her eyes briefly, remembering the feeling of his arms wrapped tightly around her. “Did you sleep well?” he asked, as she turned back to the coffee maker to make her morning cup.…

…is now available!! Get your copy now in paperback and on kindle! I have had a few readers tell me how much they have enjoyed it, and that it was definitely worth the wait! Phew! If you read it and love it, please do leave a review, every bit of feedback helps other readers to choose whether or not to give it a go, and also gives me the momentum to keep writing. In publishing The Return of…

Part of the ADHD experience for me is lacking the ability to stop and rest regularly. Usually, it’s a case of keeping going full pelt til I hit burnout, then melt into a puddle for a while to recharge. But even then, I refuse to allow burnouts to last too long, because my to do list is actually endless. Last week though, I didn’t have much choice. I had a pretty nasty tummy bug which meant…

So I wrote this whole blog post in my head while in the shower and drying my hair, and now I don’t remember a word of it. I very eloquently summed up what it felt like to desperately want to do something,  but being completely incapable of it. That’s how I feel about writing most of the time. The ideas are stacked up, the characters are impatient, my readers are waiting, and yet, the ability to…

So I’ve been back in the UK for a few days now, and already I can feel my body’s desperation for dopamine. So I googled the link between sunshine and dopamine, and yes! It’s a thing. While in Morocco,  getting daily dises of sun, my need to impulsively spend and eat an abundance of sugary snacks, was greatly lessened, and my concentration was greatly improved. Now back in the cold grey, I find…

My Dearest Twin Flames, It has been an age since I last wrote to you, and for that I apologise. The time has slipped by so fast, that I find myself looking around, slightly dazed, wondering what happened to the last decade. Because for the last decade, I have spent much of my time in love with, and addicted to, my twin flame. Yes, addicted. Because the love I feel for them is a drug, they are…