Publication Day It’s Publication Day today for the next book in my publishing challenge. Five Slightly Sinister Short Stories is the latest of my Wordsworth Collections and it contains, well, 5 stories that are a bit sinister and a bit
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God bless
Yesterday was a terrible day, during which I remained glued to the news from around 12:30pm until about 7pm. It was not really unexpected, but it was sudden. I am not an avid royalist, but I am a monarchist. She
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Just chillin’
The past few days have been all about chilling. I finished the editing job on Tuesday evening at about 7:30pm and it was back with the author by about 8pm, in 3 different files – one with full tracked changes;
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Slow down, take stock
With Windows 11 falling out with Office 365 and Scrivener 3 last week, I lost a lot of time trying to sort it all out. Then I lost a lot more time reinstalling everything and telling other people (a) what
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I went AWOL again…
…only this time, we had advance warning so were able to prepare. After years and years of trying this or that or something else, the poet finally had his operation on Monday. He was having a major nasal polypectomy followed
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Take one idea…
Date work is a big part of my short fiction work, and sometimes it features in my longer works too. I’ve also been known to write the occasional feature as well. Every month I come up with a long list
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World Book Day
Happy World Book Day! All of my books can be found on books2read.com.
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Happy New Year!
I didn’t bother sharing a publication day post for Careful What You Wish For because I think one a week is getting a bit old. However, it was published on 20 December. You can buy it in multi-ebook format here. The
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The bit in the middle
It’s that bit in the middle, in between Christmas and New Year. I hope you had a great Christmas. We’re still eating leftovers and even food that wasn’t even opened. Is there a name for that as well? We had
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Merry Christmas!
I’ve been a bit busy these past few days, but wanted to nip on to say thank you for being here, and have a wonderful Christmas!
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How I became a writer
My writing journey started in 1985. It started with a letter A chance find in my late great-aunt’s belongings started a process that has continued to this very day. It was an old letter that finally threw some light on
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Our postie is such a tease
Next month, Friday’s blog posts will be Diary of a Tiger: a year in the life of a fearless writer. This month, they’re still the same-old same-old. But there are only two more Fridays left this year when I’ll be posting,
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Blummin technology!
The new blog regime doesn’t officially start until the new year. That doesn’t stop me from practising, though and, so far, I’ve done a spreadsheet planner reminding me to write certain blog posts for certain days. Here’s how the blog
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I’m going to be busy
I’ve had a busy couple of weeks, mostly doing one of two things: Planning Ghostwriting I break up for Christmas on 16 December. Before then I had 40,000 words to write for one client and 20,000 words to write for
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New year, new blog series (plural)
I’m already planning ahead to the new year, mostly because I have to do some planning in order to keep on top of everything. And now is the time I’m also thinking ahead to some new series (plural) on the
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