• Over the past few years, my experience of the publishing world has greatly altered the perceptions I had as a fledgling writer 15 years ago. Back [...]

  Researching literary agents and traditional publishers

  November 6, 2016
• Two weeks ago after much sightseeing whilst rediscovering my home country, I was unfortunate enough to acquire a fractured metatarsal. It seems [...]

  A broken bone is no bane for a writer

  September 3, 2016
• This month, I’m very excited to have finished the final draft of my second novel. It’s a fantasy novel this time, the idea for which [...]

  Final draft of second novel finished

  March 23, 2015
• What with all my recent magazine publications and correspondence with editors on forthcoming poetry collections and book length stories (more on [...]

  Novel writing and traditional publishing

  August 27, 2014

• After one year and not quite one month of finishing my literary novel, I’ve had my first request for a full MS! With the current changing state [...]

  Full novel MS… request!

  April 17, 2013
• Finally, after a decade of writing, submitting, discarding, archiving, drafting, redrafting, rewriting and tireless editing, it felt good to have [...]

  A novel way to celebrate

  March 27, 2012