Having returned safely home and caught my breath, I thought I should share my experience of Fantasy Con 2021. It started with a noob “mistake”, in that, not knowing what time everything starts on the Friday, I booked the Thursday night in my hotel to make sure I could be | Read more…
After a frustrating eighteen months of cancellations and postponements due to the pandemic, events are finally starting up again. Back in June, I took part in the inaugural Clevedon Literary Festival in my home town, and earlier this month, I travelled up North for the Newark Book Festival.
2021 saw the fourth year of this festival. For a festival with a fairly local focus, the organisation and communication were outstanding; it felt like a much bigger and more professional event like the Hay Festival. | Read more…
It has been an age since I did a personal update, so this could be a long one. Mime – Releases 28th June[UPDATE – new release date is 28th July] 2019 was a big year for me. I finished my debut novel, Mime. I. Finished. A novel. That’s big! Huge! | Read more…
Earlier this year, having been unscrupulously recruited into producing a story for their second anthology “The Dark Half of the Year”, I moved from the tentative fringe to being a fully fledged member of North Bristol Writers. It’s a very dynamic and proactive group; rather than simply focusing on writing | Read more…