Today I start off my alphabetic tour of folklore and its influence on me with the letter 'A'. At first I struggled with what to write....

In my humble opinion there’s naught quite so magic as the folklore and history of the Isles of Britain. Having spent a decade in...

I can’t remember when I wasn’t last editing. It’s become something of a way of life. Last week I finished ‘Nightjar’ edits. A speculative...

My editing of Nightjar (the final, final draft now) is all-consuming. That said I do find time to participate in Facebook Writing/Reading...

Sometimes, with some authors, when you finish one of their works you have to give it time to settle, let it 'become', before casting...

I’m submitting... It’s fiction, a novel, but that’s not what I’m writing about. Today my blog is about trying to find a comprehensive...

This week I borrowed a few shorter pieces of works and short story anthologies from the library. These included more shorts by Du Maurier...

I really enjoyed this book. A novel or a novella? At 29,000 words I guess the latter in this day and age. Even my slow and healing brain...

As per my weekly routine, I joined with other writers and Twitter friends for #storycrafter yesterday. It was all about fear and how it...

I seem to have been editing for an age, but I come close now to being satisfied with a final edit of ’76 and the Odd 93’. I first penned...