A quick update. Making progress on the novel draft for now, which explains the lack of posts currently. Sadly I've had to remove the...

It's that time of year when the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award shortlist is revealed. Of course the extracts in...

It surprised me to receive an email on Friday telling me the reader's report from the New Writers' Scheme was ready to access. I had...

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' ...

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...

Now I know that authors who are traditionally published have no say on what price the e-book of their novels is sold at. Of course there wil...

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...

Love has been very high profile this weekend with the marriage of the Queen's grandson Prince Harry to Meghan Markle at St. George's...

I'm catching up and getting back into a routine- slowly. Last week was very busy, as I was 50% of a talk given at Nottingham Writers...

After weeks of hard non-writing work, it was lovely to go out to a local literary event, a book launch. In Nottingham the Waterstones bran...

Today I'm delighted to welcome author, and friend, Sally Quilford to Carol's Corner, to talk about her new book The Curse of Lakeham...

Finally I can return to the second draft rewrite. I'm grateful to Patsy Collins for guest posting last week while I was very busy wit...

February seems to be bringing lots of competitions, so here's another one you might like. It is Valentine's Day this coming Sunday...

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...

Yes, that's it, today I was able to write THE END at the bottom of chapter eighteen. I know there's still a lot to do, but that'...

If you saw my recent post about the Sci-fi night that was taking place at the writers club I attend, last night (21st), then you might be in...

I did it! My entry into the New Talent Award was emailed to the competition address this afternoon, and the small entry fee paid. The co...

I realised today that writing can be a bit like snakes and ladders. You work your way along the board and sometimes everything goes well, or...

I doubt there can ever be a truly definitive answer to what it the actual length of a novella or a novel because there are so many variables...