

Paul Jameson
- Oct 30, 2017
My Writing Week on Twitter
My editing of Nightjar (the final, final draft now) is all-consuming. That said I do find time to participate in Facebook Writing/Reading...


Paul Jameson
- Sep 22, 2017
My thoughts on 'The Pearl' by Steinbeck
Sometimes... With some authors; When you finish one of their works you have to give it time to settle in and 'become' before casting...


Paul Jameson
- Apr 24, 2017
The Masque of the Red Death
Today I treated myself. No writing. Well, what I mean is no creative writing as yet. There’s still four hours of today left, and after...


Paul Jameson
- Apr 3, 2017
Storytelling: The Art of Horror
This week I’ve dipped my toe into horror twice. The first by reading Printer’s Devil Court, by the author Susan Hill, and the second by...


Paul Jameson
- Mar 6, 2017
Finding Peter Pan's Wendy
Have you ever heard of Cockayne Hatley? Nor had I until I stumbled upon it one day with my daughter, Finty. We were searching for...


Paul Jameson
- Feb 6, 2017
The Black Cat - by Edgar Allan Poe
Today I finished reading my first 'Poe'... Heathen, you may say, but I am English. In England, teachers only ever teach you about English...


Paul Jameson
- Jan 23, 2017
The 39 Steps - Book Review
The 39 Steps... I love the movie and had never read the book. So there I am in the library and in among the classics I see it, a chance...


Paul Jameson
- Jan 9, 2017
A Tale of Two Books; One Good, One Bad
This week I read two books. Sort of. The first was the small and skinny 'The Embassy of Cambodia' by Zadie Smith and the second the...


Paul Jameson
- Dec 26, 2016
'The Long Earth' by Pratchett and Baxter
I really enjoyed this. What's more it the first 'long' novel I've read (other than Du Maurier) in recent years given my battle with the...


Paul Jameson
- Dec 16, 2016
'Rule Britannia' by Daphne Du Maurier
I really enjoyed this. Perhaps it was Du Maurier's 1940s voice in a 1970s setting that I loved. The eccentricity of the writing, of Mad...