Yesterday, browsing in the library, I picked up a book. I hadn’t intended to pick it up, or read three pages, or bring the book home with me...

As regular readers know, because I may have mentioned it occasionally, I will shortly be self-publishing a book for the very first time.  Wi...

 How did you spend your extra hour on Sunday? I had a nice lie-in, worked out a knotty problem in the book I'm editing and remembered th...

It opens with father declaring that Christmas won’t take place this year because he’s annoyed with his son’s school report. He then hits his...

It's an interesting thing, writing historical fiction. I've written several books in this genre: one set in the 9th century, one in ...

To paraphrase Douglas Adams, I love making plans. I like the whooshing sound they make as they collapse. His original quote was about dead...

 I've recently been writing up some folklore stories as part of an ongoing project, and can't help noticing how easily I'm distr...