What's the Story?
🌱 "Hello, my name is Paula Anne Thwaite, and I am a faith-led literary consultant, course facilitator, and published author. I help people communicate with integrity and emotional depth" 🌱
Busy Corner Books is more than a literary consultancy.
It is a space shaped by faith, restoration, and a quiet courage that grows when life unravels — and God rebuilds it in His way.
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This space was born from a season where everything familiar fell away.
A season of pain, loss, stripping back, and learning to walk in life was very different.
A season where the world as I knew it was taken from me — and yet in the stillness that followed, the voice of Father God grew clearer than ever before.
And strangely, beautifully… that’s where everything began. Firstly, back to study at 57 years: an MA in Creative Writing and facilitating therapeutic writing wellbeing groups. Next (and currently) a Doctoral Study in Ministry through St Mary's University in Twickenham.
A Journey Through Suffering and Renewal
A little over two years ago, following an accident, I was told my life would never be the same again.
They were right — but not in the way the medics suggested.
The suffering was real:
the physical pain,
the new physical limits,
the loneliness,
the quiet grief - the letting go of the old me and then people God removed from my life.
Yet in that emptiness, I found something I never knew so deeply before: the presence and tenderness of Father God.
When everything was removed, a stillness, a place of spiritual listening and discernment began to unfold.
Not perfection — but clarity.
Not certainty — but trust.
Not ease — but intimacy.
I learned to lean on God and began to quench a deep spiritual thirst....
Letting Him guide my steps, especially when nothing made sense.
This is the soil from which Busy Corner Books evolved.
🌱 ...everything from my past was composting for the future!
A Ministry of Words,
Healing and Community
As God rebuilt my life, He also rekindled the gifts He had planted long ago:
🌳Busy Corner Books now stands on these foundations🌳
Here, writing is not just a craft — it is a place of healing and discernment.
A place where, given the right tentative facilitation, faith and creativity meet.
A place where people come to explore their stories, understand their pain, and discover their own courage - feeling held and in confidence.
the Arclight™ Spiritual Formation Journey, or CPD/PD (Continuing Professional Development and Personal Development) training — the heart remains the same:
to bring people together, shine light into hidden places, and use writing and individual process as a form of gentle transformation.
Held by God, Serving Others
The accident changed my body, my pace, my life — but it deepened the calling.
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Now I study ministry, write courses and books, and walk alongside others, because I know how it feels to start again from nothing.
To be gently rebuilt.
To find God in the quietest,
most painful places.
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I don't lead from a platform — I facilitate through a deep relationship with Father God; sharing faith, compassion and light. Delivery of ministry is so much more than from a pulpit.
If you feel drawn here,
there is a reason
You are welcome.
You are safe.
You are not alone.
Busy Corner Books is simply a gentle corner where faith, words, and healing come together —
and where your story can unfold with acceptance, honesty and hope.
Book your free introductory meeting (available methods: Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Phone)...
🟢 A word about my 'pet hates'. Firstly, AI. We are born to progress. However I believe this should not be at the cost of using our own brain and thinking. Other niggles are, ego, motives and agendas. We all have them. By which filters we use them to make a decision defines our motives. Sadly, or fortunately, wisdom has taught me to see through many facades. We are human beings with needs, wants and desires to achieve our outcome(s). Congruent truth is very important in my world. This should be a mutual agreement through our time together and afterwards. Words can be powerful, choose them carefully, through dignity, integrity, compassion, trust and love. You are safe here. 🟢