For anyone wondering what has happened to the annual Bad Sex in Fiction award, sadly this did not run. You can read why on the Bookseller we...

A quick post to update on the results of the recent Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of 2019, and the Bad Sex in Fiction award. T...

I was beginning to think that this may not be happening this year as the shortlist announcement is later than in 2018. The mystery is solv...

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 ...

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...

As I assumed a few weeks ago the Joy of Water Boiling did well, so well in fact that it won this year's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Boo...

This prize has been running 40 years with a number of extremely odd titles winning... As I blog about this every year and choose the title...

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

Not sure whether you could call this a highlight of the book awards year, but it's certainly 'different'... "According to...

Like me, you may have thought the annual Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year wasn't taking place this year. Usually it...

Do you recall me mentioning I'd won one of the annual competitions at the writers' club late last year? Yes the ghost story one with...

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 ...

Around this time in November the shortlist for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award is announced. The Award  was established by Auberon Waugh, the...

Yes, it's time for the Diagram Prize again- the 38th. A few weeks ago I mentioned that there was still time to nominate odd book title...

Only 25 days to go... Despite saying last year I'd start my Christmas shopping and card writing early, I haven't. Honestly, the ...

Yes it's that time of year when the shortlist of the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction shortlist is revealed. Now I have to adm...

I'm late posting today because I was grabbing some uninterrupted time to get on with finishing the last couple of chapters of my contemp...

I'm slowly recovering from the nasty bug, and my brain is no longer stuffed like a thick duvet! My characters have been quiet - plotti...

If you read my post about Awards Night early last month, you may recall that it was the announcement that I'd won the Nottingham Writers...

I find it helpful to look back at what I have, and haven't, achieved with my writing life during the year. I start out with a general ...