You can find out more  here .            March has arrived and spring beckons- thankfully. I may get rid of my lingering cold t...

It's been a busy month so far and it's only the first week... Yesterday (Saturday) I was at a workshop at Nottingham Writers' ...

It's the last day of the month and as of 4.30 am (BST) this morning, my submission to the RNA's New Writers' Scheme went in. N...

One week to go to my final deadline. Today (Sunday) I've done about seven hours at the keyboard- obviously I did get up to make coffee...

Thursday my second draft went over the 40,000 word mark. (Admittedly at the start of the year I already had a handful of the early chapter...

Are you a multi-tasking writer? Although I'm concentrating on my novel at the moment I'm thinking about two other projects in-betw...

March already and I'm finally making progress on the new scenes in the second draft of the novel. Back in January I was a bit concerne...

Did you have a good New Year? I spent it very quietly at home... I'm very happy to say that I've started 2019 well as I've alr...

Welcome to part two of my 2018 review. In part one it was January to June, and now the busy exciting aspects start with July... July to ...

Toward the end of the year I review the past twelve months to see what I've achieved- or not in some cases- and set a few targets for th...

Only fifteen days until Christmas and I've still got cards and letters to write and presents to buy. Last week I was partying; minimal...

No, the book is not done yet! Instead there's a non-fiction article due out any day- if you're a Writing Magazine subscriber; othe...

In the chair does sound a bit sinister, but it's not- thankfully. It was the writers' club's AGM last night and the post of ...

Today has been moving furniture out of my office area and putting temporary storage in place. It's certainly given me a bit more space, ...

It's only 15 days until Christmas Day and I've still got so much to do... I'm doing this in two parts so you haven't got to ...

Christopher Bollen for The Destroyers. You can read the judge's comments in this Bookseller article . Until next year...

Now I need to say at the start this treasure is not the archetypal pirate treasure- coins, jewellery and other goodies along with the odd sk...

A few days after my workshop debut I was over in Staffordshire at Trentham Garden for the graduation ceremony of one of my triplets- I'v...

I have survived. Previously I've done short writing sessions for the writers' club- when needed- but never actually done a worksho...

Well it's the day after the night before and I can now reveal what I've been keeping quiet about since late October... I won one ...