All is going okay at the moment on the 'getting son ready to go off to university'. I've managed to grab a couple of hours wri...

If you read any of my blog posts in December, you may know that I was a contender for the Nottingham Writers' Club,Writer of the Year tr...

Just had an e-mail to tell me my submission to Cafelit is up on the website and blog, so you can read it here . It's called 'A Tig...

Not sure what has changed, but I'm finally feeling brave enough to start sending my short stories and flash fiction out into the world. ...

Okay here's a few photos from Saturday at the Lowdham Book Festival- I've yet to master the finer arts of Photoshop Elements 9, so a...

Last November I wrote a 500 word flash fiction for the Autumn prose competition at Nottingham Writers' Club. We'd been fortunate t...

It's always hard get back into routine after a break, and that certainly goes for writing too. I was at a difficult point in my manusc...

I've been making steady progress on my novella but have now come to a temporary halt. Why? Because my floppy disk reader has gone as...

Yes, I know this post is very late... (Update: The photos of me belly dancing are at the bottom of this post.) Wednesday was Awards Nigh...

Do you take time to seriously look at how you've done each year? And I don't just mean waiting until January the 1st and making reso...

Today is the day, the One Word Anthology e-book by the Talkback Writers  is launched, and you can now buy it from alfiedog.com  for 99p. ...

The countdown to the launch of the One Word Challenge Anthology e-book begins today. This is a very exciting week for me, as I have four p...

I had hoped to have completed the redesign of my blog by this week, but technology and the new Blogger interface have decided otherwise. It ...

The remainder of the year is going to be busy. So I'm glad I've got the organisation in place before I start. Not only is there al...

All writers eventually get to a stage when they feel they are good enough to make some money from their writing. Sadly that isn't as eas...

When I'm writing anything, thinking time is essential. I don't have a contract requiring a book a year, so if I hit a brick wall i...

The Mail on Sunday Novel Competition results were published last Sunday (thanks to Viv on the Talkback forum for the list) and congratulatio...

When I joined Twitter earlier in the year I said the next stage would be Facebook. Well today I joined Facebook and my head is now spinnin...

Bigger Short Story Competitions are open for entries-details and entry form here . Words with Jam have an annual short story competition, b...

It was very hot in Nottingham, Wednesday evening, and I think quite a few members of the writers club were at home watching tennis in the co...