Life choices… are they already written?

Life choices… are they already written?

I came across this graphic on Linkedin the other day. I think it nicely depicts how we can so often look back in our lives and think about how different it could have been if we’d made different decisions at key moments, when actually where we are right now at...
Am I guilty of ‘bookocide’?

Am I guilty of ‘bookocide’?

I think I’m a book-killer. Can you help? It’s fair to say that I find starting books (most things, actually) a lot easier than finishing them. I know I can finish things – I’ve self-published three long novels and a short story. I’ve...
Another fine mess I got myself into!

Another fine mess I got myself into!

Happy Christmas (Eve) readers, There’s an Irish-named pub in the town where I live here in the south of Spain. I won’t name it, for reasons that will soon become clear. It’s not my ‘regular’ haunt – and to be frank, I don’t...
Tripping over dogs

Tripping over dogs

One of the most fruitful ways I know to generate stories is to take a walk. Living in the south of Spain (in Andalusia), I’m very lucky to be surrounded by magnificent countryside; a sea that can be as calm as bathwater, rolling hills that get covered in a haze...
My run-in with the Russian mafia (sort of)

My run-in with the Russian mafia (sort of)

I’ve made a few gaffes in my time, but this was one of the worst… My first novel, Six Hard Days in Andalusia, is set in and around the area where I live (on the western end of the Costa del Sol, in the south of Spain). The ‘Costa’ has quite a...
RIP Mikey

RIP Mikey

A grim day, that many a family will be familiar with. The death of a much-loved pet. My son and my youngest daughter left the house early this morning (at the time of writing) to find Mikey, our black and white cat, prostrate on the street by the front gate. I’ll take...