by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | My journey
If you are one of my email subscribers (join here, if not and get a free novel in the process) you will know that I sometimes share early chapters of work in progress. Sneak previews, if you will. Well, I’ve also got a folder in my cloud drive where I keep all...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Samples, Writing news
I’m currently writing my 4th book, codenamed ‘Berlin, 1946’, a dark thriller set in Germany’s defeated capital. The strapline I think I will use is; “A cold war starting, a vengeance burning”. Sound interesting? Check out the rough,...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Muses, Writing fiction
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...
by admin | Jan 15, 2022 | Books, Muses, My journey, Writing news
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...
by admin | Jan 1, 2022 | My journey
Happy New Year to all my wonderful readers, I truly hope you had a wonderful Christmas and wish you a happy new year! I’m going to cast aside memories of catching Covid, my two cats being killed, aborted trips to see close relatives and friends, a week-long...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Muses, My journey
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...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Muses, My journey
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...
by admin | Dec 10, 2021 | Books, Writing news
I share something in common with Dan Brown. It’s a tenuous link, I grant you. When watching a series of videos on Masterclass a few months back, Brown shared with us mere mortals that for one of his early books he made a mockup of the cover before he started...
by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | My journey, Travel
My wife and I took a 4-day trip to Lisbon last week for our 21st wedding anniversary (it’s a 7-hour drive from where we live in Spain). What a wonderful city it is! It oozes history and character, the people were all super-friendly, their English was amazing,...
by admin | Dec 3, 2021 | Muses, My journey
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...
