A recent feature in the Telegraph suggested that September, the start of the new school year, makes a better season of renewal than the more conventional January celebration. It’s a good point, and one I think I’d sign up to. Even if it’s proving difficult this September to find the surge of energy that a good summer might have provided, … Continue reading New Year’s Greetings
Adding the new Short Fiction page has prompted some reflections on writing. There’s an idea in circulation that a short story is in some way harder to write than a novel. I don’t think for a minute that this is the case, but looking at the relative word-count, the effort to get 3000 words right … Continue reading Long and Short (2)
I’ve been thinking about some changes to the site for a while, and as you can see, have now begun. Apart from the new look, I’ll be rewriting some pages and adding others. shifting the emphasis away from my first novel (without abandoning it!) Meanwhile, apologies for the general upheaval. The blog will continue to be updated, … Continue reading Don’t panic!
Decided it was high time I updated My Links to be a proper Blogroll – and voilà, here it is, with all my current favourites on display. I’ve left off one or two others like Scott Pack and Dove Grey Reader whom I also visit from time to time but who are almost too well-known to need an … Continue reading New to You
More summer visiting is making it hard to get to the blog, but I do keep looking around my own favourites and am sorry to see that Matt Curran may be giving up his Blogspot of Blood owing to the pressures of being a published author while doing the day job. By most people’s standards, Matt would … Continue reading The published and the damned
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