I live in Sandy. It’s a town on the busy A1 between London and Peterborough, and on to Scotland. A place to drive through for most, maybe...

Late last year I started writing ‘Forever Raven’. It’s a tale I started as a short story, but which quickly grew into a novel. Still...

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...

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...

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 come close now to being satisfied with a final edit of ’76 and the Odd 93’. I first penned this manuscript between 1993 and 1996. A cathartic exercise drawing on my experience of more than a decade of what the doctors tell me was severe emotional, mental, and physical abuse; my childhood. And I’ll be glad to finish it. A crime-noir piece of fiction, it’s very dark and cuts a bit too close to the bone. That said, I’ve learnt so much

This week I’d like to raise awareness of... ‘Inside the Bell Jar’ A literary journal and brave new venture, this online journal aims to deliver an honest and, at times, quite harrowing insight into the complexities, range and challenges of mental illness. Released quarterly by Editor Sami Clara, it brings together the stories, poems and art of creatives who suffer from mental illness, or who are affected by and close to sufferers of mental illness. This makes for raw readi

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...