Category: writer at work

Yesterday I managed to post a book review, so today is another two-day blog post. Tuesday After a few flurries of snow the day before, when we woke up on…

Despite having ‘no plans beyond shopping’, we had a really busy weekend in the end. Saturday On Saturday we got up early (yes, really – at the weekend!) and we…

Well, it seems that the WP to Buffer auto-shares worked okay, and I didn’t even have to check because I received not one but five emails (5): one from WordPress…

I hit the ground running yesterday and went straight into faffing… Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50 minutes each rather than 25 minutes each, short breaks are 10 minutes,…

The dog disturbed me several times during the night and that meant I didn’t get as much sleep as I’d like. The poet manages to sleep right through all of…

The poet went into the office today, so that meant we were up earlier and that meant I was at my desk earlier. Pomodoros Don’t forget, these pomodoros are 50…

Can you believe it’s 10 January already? Time flies ever quicker with each passing year. The dog didn’t get his twilight trot on Friday, or even his moonlight stroll. We…

We almost forgot to take the tree down on Thursday night, so it was a mad frantic rush to do that and pack away all of the decorations. The tree…

While tea cooked on Wednesday night, I sat down and caught up with the rest of the daily competitions that had built up over the previous few weeks. That meant…

New Kickstarter campaign On Tuesday evening an email came in from Kickstarter with news on the latest Dean Wesley Smith/Kristine Kathryn Rusch campaign: Fantasies Collide. I didn’t even know what…

Tuesday started really late for me. This was too bad as it was the first day of the new year and I had great plans to follow. The problem was,…

Christmas and New Year are over but today is still a holiday in the UK. We were going to go out as we should have gone out on Sunday but…

Today is 1 December, which means for me it’s the time of year for planning ahead. And I have a lot of planning to do for next year if I…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

…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…

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…

Happy World Book Day! All of my books can be found on books2read.com.

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…

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….

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!

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…