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During the course of my endeavours in writing, one quote on the subject has come back to me more often than any other. It’s one I’ve used...
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Jan 17, 20216 min read
COVID Days: How do Authors Deal With This?
I’m a writer who has repeatedly considered situations in which the world might change beyond all recognition; as someone who writes urban...
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Apr 23, 20202 min read
My Top Writing Tips
Warning: this post should be taken with a pinch of salt - or whatever seasonings you deem appropriate and healthy. Paprika is mentioned...
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Jul 13, 20197 min read
The Final Resort
RELEASE DAY POST FOR “THE FINAL RESORT” Warning: significant spoilers If ever a story was defined by its setting, it’s this one. The...
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May 4, 20195 min read
A Matter of Life and Death - why do authors keep killing people?
WARNING – HARRY POTTER SPOILER. MICHAEL TYNE SPOILERS TOO, FOR THAT MATTER Katie W – daughter of my friend ‘Cashpoint’ Tony - is...
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Feb 22, 20195 min read
Dark Lords and Other Inconveniences
One of the scariest ideas in The Lord of the Rings is when it is revealed that Sauron is not actually the Dark Lord at all. He’s just an...
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Mar 25, 20182 min read
"Beer, football and look at the..." Is Bromance Dead?
I think it’s time to talk about Bromance. The reason for this perhaps startling assertion is a little thread I found in We Aten’t Dead,...
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Dec 15, 20174 min read
The Last Great Radio Show
I’ve been kind of putting this off. No idea why. Normally, I like to have a post about a new book straight out there on the day of...
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Sep 10, 20176 min read
The Curse Of The Edit
Confidence is a funny thing, when you’re a writer. I’ve written elsewhere about my second book, The Falling Fire, and how I totally lost...
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Aug 1, 20173 min read
The Boss
When I was at University, I had the pleasure of dating a very beautiful girl from Nottingham, whom I will call Not Her Real Name. Not Her...
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May 10, 20175 min read
THE END - Finishing "The Shattered Land"
I remember the first time I actually finished a novel. I was quite young, probably about twenty-five, and the book in question was an...
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Apr 27, 20173 min read
Where do you get your ideas from?
ADVANCE WARNING: this is not a very serious post. It’s been a funny few weeks and I need that holiday I’ve got coming up. The other...
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Mar 28, 20173 min read
Free Stuff For Authors
Authors are poor. This is proverbial. A recent survey showed that only 35% of published authors make a full-time living from their...
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Jan 8, 20177 min read
Plum
Serendipity. Over the weekend, I wrote a post which began with an anecdote about the great British writer of humourous novels, PG...
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Nov 30, 20165 min read
It's the Apocalypse, not a f***ing camping trip!
PG Wodehouse – and there are no better words with which to begin a treatise on the subject of literary composition – once wrote a letter...
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Nov 27, 20164 min read
The Showcase, missing readers and other matters of crucial importance
An introduction to the "Author Showcase" and why it seems to me to be Important and Good. Those of you who have been following this site...
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Sep 22, 20163 min read
The Scottish Connection
More "behind the scenes" footage from The Falling Fire. The Science Fiction author, Jerry Pournelle, once wrote that there are two ways...
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Sep 9, 20165 min read
The Falling Fire
NOTE: I have managed to make this post almost entirely free of spoilers. Nonetheless, I'd suggest you read it twice: once before reading...
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Jul 23, 20165 min read
Alien Concerns
I'm going to be a little bit controversial here. I have, for some time, been speculating - mentally as it were, - that Science Fiction,...
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May 26, 20165 min read
Political Hats
I like hats, and I can not lie... My girlfriend thinks I look awful in them. But I don't care (one of the few opinions of hers that I...
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May 13, 20164 min read
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