2018 The Year in Reviews
During the course of the year, I have, from time to time, offered up my opinions on Facebook and other social media about books, films and plays which…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
During the course of the year, I have, from time to time, offered up my opinions on Facebook and other social media about books, films and plays which…
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” Oscar Wilde – Lady Windermere’s Fan Two or three reviewers of my…
I don’t know what other writers feel when they are asked this perfectly fair and reasonable question. I tend to have a version of the blurb available…
My collection of short stories, Cherries, is making its way into the world. Humphrey and Jack, my second novel, will be launched in the New Year. Time for some reading and a couple of reviews. Today, it is the turn of the notorious emperor, Caligula by the prolific Simon Turney.
My current work in progress is a selection of short stories to be called simply Cherries. I am busy curating these tales (as the current fashionable jargon has…
“Who is ‘The Countess’?” is the novel’s smouldering conundrum and it is never fully answered until the surprising and delightful last pages, and perhaps not even then. The…
After twenty-five consecutive days of work, weekends included, and four meticulous edits, Humphrey and Jack is ready to go off to my editor. I look forward to some…
At 11.42 hours this morning, I completed the first draft of Humphrey and Jack. It is a good feeling. I have been working on it now for a…
This is going to be very short because I’m very busy. I’m coming to the end of the first draft of Humphrey and Jack and I’m very excited.…
‘Legend’ (1985). Saw it was directed by Ridley Scott and was tempted in. Has unicorns in it. High risk of hyperglaecemia. Equivalent to eating four kilos of sticky…