‘This is Lockdown’ blog tour

Thankyou Marje for inviting me to be part of your fantastic new book, focusing on thoughts of Lockdown.  I’m very excited to have you here, for the last part of your blog tour.

The Poets in This Is Lockdown – For Marian Wood

by M J Mallon

Thank you so much for contributing to the anthology Marian and for hosting me on your blog as part of the blog tour.

This Is Lockdown includes M J Mallon’s diaries, her poems, flash fiction and short stories, the ‘isolation writers’ thoughts on their experiences during this time, and the poems and writing contributions from many authors, bloggers and poets.

An anthology and compilation of diaries, short stories, flash fiction, contributions from the ‘isolation writers,’ plus poetry written during the time of lockdown in the UK. This Is Lockdown is written from a writer’s perspective highlighting the simple pleasures of day-to-day life during such an uncertain and frightening time. It also gives a glimpse of the blogging, writing world. The book showcases several authors and their thoughts on what it is like to experience ‘isolation’ as a writer. I also discuss the handling of the pandemic and my thoughts on what might happen next. In the final part of the book I include my latest short story idea: a YA romance and various short pieces of poetry, and flash fiction inspired by the pandemic.

The authors showcasing their poems in this collection are:

Marian Wood

Title of Poem: Our Changed World Poetry – Free verse

I met Marian at last year’s Bloggers Bash in London. She is an enthusiastic blogger, writer and poet who is working on two novels, one of which is Crime, the other Science Fiction. She manages all this whilst bringing up a family and working part time for the NHS.

Sally Cronin

Title of Poem: Silver Lining – Double Etheree 

Sally Cronin is a huge supporter of the indie community, and an enthusiastic blogger and author. She writes book reviews, many features, health columns and all manner of blogging wonder in her aptly termed Smorgasbord blog. She is an author/poet and regular contributor to Colleen Chesebro’s poetry challenge. Her latest book is: Life’s Rich Tapestry Woven in Words

Adele Marie Park

Title of Poem World End – Free verse 

Adele Park is a Fantasy/Horror author. She has won poetry competitions in the past. Her poetry piece World End shows how talented she is. We have been friends for a long while and are both contributing authors to Dan Alatorre’s bestselling horror anthology Nightmareland. Adele, Debby (below,) and I are all part of the sisterly collaboration – Spiritual Sisters which includes, Colleen Chesebro and Annette Aben. Adele recently released her second novel in the fantasy series: Wisp. Sea Dragons.

Debby Gies

Title of Poem: Cabin Fever – Etheree

Debby is a memoirist/Non-Fiction author, a huge supporter of the indie community and fellow administrator of The Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club on Facebook. She’s a lovely lady who shares her book reviews on her Sunday review spot and interviews fellow authors too. She is a regular contributor to Colleen Chesebro’s poetry challenge. Her latest memoir is: Twenty Years After I Do .

Frank Prem

Unknowing (the city) – Free verse

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for forty years. When not writing or reading his poetry to an audience, he fills his time by working as a psychiatric nurse. Frank’s latest release is the last part of the wonderful love trilogy – Rescue and Redemption. I’ve read two out of the three in this trilogy and looking forward to reading the last one!

Willow Willers

The Plague – Free verse

Willow is a lovely soul who blogs, writes, and shares heart felt poetry on her blog. She contributes to many online blogging challenges including Linda Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday, Colleen Chesebro’s Poetry Challenge, Ronovan Writes Poetry Challenges, Sue Vincent’s Write Photo. She is a kind, caring, positive light in the blogging community who I have met on several occasions in London at the Blogging Bash gatherings.

M J Mallon

Marje, or MJ as she sometimes likes to be known has been writing poetry for quite some time. She only recently became a published poet with her first collection of poetry, prose and photography which was released in Feb 2020 : Mr. Sagittarius.

Author Bio – M J Mallon

I was born on the 17th of November in Lion City: Singapore, (a passionate Scorpio, with the Chinese Zodiac sign a lucky rabbit,) second child and only daughter to my parents Paula and Ronald, only sister to my elder brother Donald. I spent my early childhood in a mountainous court dwelling in the Peak District in Hong Kong.

It’s rumoured that I now live in the Venice of Cambridge, with my six-foot hunk of a Rock God husband. My two enchanted daughters often return with a cheery smile.
Sometimes when the mood takes me, I adopt an alter ego, M J – Mary Jane from Spiderman. I love superheroes!

When I’m not writing, I eat exotic delicacies while belly dancing, or surf to the far reaches of the moon. To chill out, I practice Tai Chi and Yoga. If the mood takes me, I snorkel with mermaids, or sign up for idyllic holidays with the Chinese Unicorn, whose magnificent voice sings like a thousand wind chimes.

My favourite genres to write are: YA fantasy, magical realism, and various forms of poetry. I blog about books, writing, photography and inspiration at: https://mjmallon.com.

I enjoy writing articles celebrating the spiritual realm, my love of nature and all things magical, mystical, and mysterious. One of my greatest pleasures is reading. I’ve written over 150 reviews at my lovely blog home: https://mjmallon.com – book reviews

Links:

Authors Website: https://mjmallon.com
Authors Amazon page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/M-J-Mallon/e/B074CGNK4L
Twitter:@Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mjmallonauthor/
Authors Bloggers Rainbow Support Club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1829166787333493
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17064826.M_J_Mallon
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/m-j-mallon
Collaborative Group: https://www.facebook.com/pg/5SpiritualSisters/

The wonderful contributors are:

Richard Dee, (Sci Fi , Steampunk, Amateur Detective author,) Catherine Fearns, (Amazon Bestselling Author of Police Procedural/Mysteries and Music Journalist,) Lynn Fraser, (Author,) Jackie Carreira, (Writer, musician, designer and aspiring philosopher,) Willow Willers, (Poet and writer,) Sharon Marchisello, (Murder Mystery, Financial non-fiction,)

Fi Phillips, (Author, Copy Writer) Jeannie Wycherley, (dark stories, suspense, horror,) Chantelle Atkins, (urban fiction, teen/YA,) Tracie Barton-Barrett, (Speaker/author,) Peter Taylor- Gooby, (Crime, Love Stories, Political Fiction,) Ritu Bhathal, (Chick Lit romance, poet,) Alice May , (Author, Artist and Speaker,) Miriam Owen, (Blogger and Doctoral Researcher,)

Drew Neary and Ceri Williams (Ghost Horror, Supernatural,) Katherine Mezzacappa, (Author name: Katie Hutton,) (Historical Fiction/Romance,) Sally Cronin, (huge supporter of indie community/blogger/author) Debby Gies (D G Kaye), (Memoirist/NonFiction,) Adele Marie Park, (Fantasy, horror, urban fantasy,) Marian Wood (blogger, poet and writer.) Samantha Murdoch, (Writer, Blogger,) Beaton Mabaso (Blogger, African Storyteller,) Frank Prem (Poet, Author,) Anne Goodwin (Author, Book Blogger) Sherri Matthews (Writer, Photographer, Blogger,) and Jane Horwood and Melissa Santiago-Val – Community Masks 4 NHS.

This Is Lockdown

An anthology and compilation of diaries, short stories, flash fiction, contributions from the ‘isolation writers,’ plus poetry written during the time of lockdown in the UK. This Is Lockdown is written from a writer’s perspective highlighting the simple pleasures of day-to-day life during such an uncertain and frightening time. It also gives a glimpse of the blogging, writing world. The book showcases several authors and their thoughts on what it is like to experience ‘isolation’ as a writer. I also discuss the handling of the pandemic and my thoughts on what might happen next. In the final part of the book I include my latest short story idea: a YA romance and various short pieces of poetry, and flash fiction inspired by the pandemic.

Buying Links:

Universal link: mybook.to/Thisislockdown

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