by Josie | Aug 6, 2026 | #AuthorStyle, Featured, Imagination & Creation, Lum's Adventures, Writing
Writing a Play! The sixth impossible thing on my list of achievements in 2026 is writing a play! And then I surprised myself even more by writing another one! I saw an advert on Facebook for a writing group for playwrights hosted by Deanna Strasse. For many years, I...
by Josie | Jul 16, 2026 | #AuthorStyle, Business, Encouraging Reading, Events, Featured, Imagination & Creation, Workshops, Writing
“Put your hands together for Josie Dom appearing at Colchester’s newest bookshop, House of Joy!” And the crowd go wild! This feels very BIG! I was moseying along Crouch Street in my home city of Colchester one day in March when I saw the beginnings...
by Josie | Aug 3, 2021 | Events, Imagination & Creation, School Visits
Going out to visit a school still fills me with nerves. To counteract the thoughts of being ‘not enough’, I make plans to fill my time in the classroom to give the school and the children extra value. My visits are always more than a reading! We have...
by Josie | Jul 25, 2019 | #AuthorStyle, Imagination & Creation, Writing
On 25th April, I boldly went where I’d never been before, but had very much wanted to for a long time. Lack of confidence and time had always held me back. So when my best friend, Julia, told me she was thinking of attending a Creative Writing course, I asked if...
by Josie | Jul 4, 2019 | #AuthorStyle, Encouraging Reading, Events, Imagination & Creation, Workshops, Writing
As an author, my ambition is to sell lots of books and encourage the enjoyment of reading in children. As an avid reader myself, encouraging reading is relatively easy. It is true, books really can take you away to anywhere in this world and out of it. In my childhood...
by Josie | Jun 7, 2019 | #AuthorStyle, Imagination & Creation, Writing
Writing stories for children is the perfect “job” for me. I spend a lot of my time talking nonsense just to amuse myself and this works well for children’s stories. When I am asked a question, if I don’t know the answer, I am often tempted to...
