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Creative writing is hard. It isn’t easy to make time every day, or week, or whenever you can to pour words onto a computer screen, [...]
December 5, 2023
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Really exciting news to share as I found out on November 15th that my yuletide ghost novel, The Fairy Lights, is through to phase 2 of the Author [...]
December 1, 2023
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Is it necessary to have a degree, or a master’s degree, in creative writing in order to become a published author? No – I certainly [...]
November 19, 2023
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It’s the one year bookiversary for The Fairy Lights. Hurray! Book 2 in my Belfast Ghosts series is actually my fourth published novel, and [...]
November 10, 2023
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It’s the penultimate month of the year and you know what? I’m feeling it. Ibiza seems like it was a million years ago. Work (my day [...]
November 7, 2023
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Recently an old friend of mine lamented on Facebook that if people want to say things about her, they should say any such comments to her face. [...]
September 29, 2023
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As a follow up to my previous blog post, I thought I’d look at all the benefits of having other full-time work instead of writing. Given my [...]
September 25, 2023
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I didn’t get any writing done last weekend, as I was away with my family on a staycation up to Portrush, on the north coast of Northern [...]
September 20, 2023
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I’m chipping away, bit by bit, at the 3 writing projects that I’ve currently got on the go. Novel WIP#7 is a supernatural horror set [...]
September 12, 2023
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Term time has started, so that means as of last week, I’ve been back into the full swing of work in secondary education. When I was [...]
September 9, 2023