Death is no less scary when you can’t see it coming. My first novel, Mime will be out next year. Book one in the Weird News series it follows Elliot | Read more...
MIME – Coming 2018
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North Bristol Writers Present “Tales from the Graveyard”
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 | Read more…
Stop judging me and cut my damn hair!
A little rant about why I hate going to the hairdresser Four months after my last trip to a hairdresser, I still find myself replaying the memory whenever I wash | Read more…
24 Books in 12 Months – A Reading Challenge for 2017
I really wanted to take on a reading challenge this year, to try to add diversity to what I read. I looked at several I found online but none of | Read more…
FILM REVIEW: “Arrival” – Simply outstanding 10/10
Arrival is sci-fi tale told with an air of intense realism. Alien objects appear around the world and humans are “invited” to check them out and try to figure out | Read more…
A Tip on How to Handle Edits and Critiques
A little bit of potted “wisdom” based on my own experience of receiving edits and critiques When confronted with edits, you invariably won’t like what the editor has suggested. They | Read more…
On Author Voice vs Editors
What is your author voice? How do you develop it and bring it to the fore? It’s a tricky question and one many authors struggle with. I myself struggle to reconcile | Read more…
