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Tag Archives: novel WIP#7

  • Finally, after three years of writing my latest novel project, a ghost horror book set in London, I have finished the final draft. Hurray, [...]

    Unboxing the final draft of my ghost novel WIP

    May 10, 2026
  • Or she may put you in a book and kill you. At least this is what it says on my favourite writing mug. A colleague bought this for me during a [...]

    Please do not annoy the writer

    April 26, 2026
  • The thing about working in a school, as I do, is that all your holidays are fixed; you get a week off for Halloween, two weeks for Christmas, a [...]

    Easter staycation: switch-off time from writing and editing

    April 10, 2026
  • This week I have been back to work after eight weeks off for summer break. For any new readers, I’m not a full-time author. Whilst it is [...]

    Who is to blame for not writing? Nobody else but me!

    August 30, 2025
  • Which of my books are NOT horror books? Three of them, actually. Two of my five novels are not horror: Gods of Avalon Road is occult urban [...]

    Which of my books are NOT horror books?

    June 17, 2025
  • Today’s blog post is really just an update about my writer’s block, which I wrote about last month. Since then, I’ve decided to [...]

    An update on writer’s block – writing despite the hurdles

    March 13, 2025
  • It seems like a million years ago, but in reality less than two years ago, when I started writing two different novel WIPs at once. Since May [...]

    When you lose the thread – hitting writer’s block with two novels at once

    February 19, 2025
  • Literary life for me lately has been busy, busy, busy. I realise I haven’t posted an update in 6 days. I normally try to blog every 4 days [...]

    Another book finished! Publication forthcoming in 2025

    November 14, 2024
  • The countdown to Halloween is on, now that it’s October. It’s my favourite themed season; what horror author wouldn’t love all [...]

    October writing update

    October 4, 2024
  • A new school term has begun, which means the summer holiday is over for me. I can’t complain. If I worked in any other job, I’d have [...]

    Back to the day-job: a summer summary

    August 25, 2024

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