Deborah Durbin

Hope I'm not tempting fate by mentioning this, but I'm on the move! As of Friday 4th December I will be offline for a few days whilst we move house. You can still email me at deborah.durbin@yahoo.com and I will get back to you as soon as my office is set up again. Wish me luck!

I know it's hard to believe, but six weeks tomorrow is Christmas Day,which for many is a time of stress: Dare you invite Uncle Dave for Christmas lunch again after his 'ten uses for a turkey baster demonstration' ended up with your Aunt Audrey being admitted to A and E? Should you really tell your mother-in-law that the second-hand,soap-on-a-rope (complete with armpit hair) that she bought ...

In the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine on 7th November you can read my feature on superstitions!

  It's getting to that time of the year again when the annuals hit the shops in time for Christmas stocking fillers and my lovely, lovely editor, Mary at It's Fate has included not one, not two, but three of my features in the 2010 It'sFate annual. They are; Charm School - a feature about how to be luckier (pages 106 -109), Handwritten Prescription - about palmistry (pages...

Apologies that it's been a whi...

I was recently interviewed by the DWPub - a directory for journalists, editors and PR people - about my work as a journalist. You can read my interview below:

What do you write about?

I specialise mainly in women's lifestyle/health features, mind, body and spirit and education features.

In this week's (August 1st)  My Weekly you can read my feature about how to get lots of things for free: from holidays to free help, cosmetics to High Street shopping vouchers and free theatre tickets. Buy a copy and be quids in!

I'm really pleased! I know it's only July, but I've been asked by Soul & Spirit magazine to write a horoscope on Native American Astrology for their November issue and if all goes well, it will be a regular, monthly column, so look out for the November issue. Also due to the fact that the illustrations for Native American Astrology are hard to obtain, the editor has asked my daughter, Becky...

If you buy the August issue of Natural Health (available in Sainsbury's, Smiths, Morrisons, etc) you can read my feature, The Feng Shui Life Coach. It's amazing how your environment can affect every area of your life and a few subtle changes can vastily improve everything from your love life to your finances.

A few years ago I started teaching creative writing and journalism courses to children aged 11 upwards and last year I had a young student called Sasha who told me she wanted to write a novel about the adventures of a Labrador called Labby. Every month or so she would send me another chapter and we would discuss ideas as to how to move the story on etc. This morning I received a copy of Labby's Adventures in the post...