Aerial views of London from 1891
The Strand in 1891 a key setting for my work Image credit: http://goo.gl/7J1CP Although I have never lived in London and only visited on rare occasions, the sprawling…
Month: July 2012
Review: FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong
FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong, by Gordon Stainforth My rating: 5 of 5 stars Warning: spoilers! When Gordon Stainforth asked me to read and review his new…
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Review: Hazard’s Way
From Amazon: http://goo.gl/qIubg Hazard’s Way by Roger Hubank My rating: 3 of 5 stars I feel like a bit of a traitor as I write this review, because…
It’s time to write a blurb
I’ve been working very hard this week and I’m that bit closer to publication. The next stage in the journey is to come up with a usable blurb:…
I have a cover design!
Ta-da! Thanks to the swift and very talented work of John Amy, I have a cover design I’m happy with! Creating a cover for The Only Genuine Jones…
Some thoughts on constructing a plot
The trusty m500 doing what it does best As I write this I am sitting in a cafe in Skegness (thanks to the marvel that is mobile broadband)…
Switzerland (oh to be there in the summer!)
In the steamy, stuffy Midlands, ‘neath an English summer sky, When the holidays are nearing with the closing of July, And experienced Alpine stagers and impetuous recruits Are…
Review: The Living Mountain
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd is a powerful work of landscape writing which, I suspect,…
Five years since work began on OGJ
These notebooks, in which I wrote down everything I saw during my two visits to Zermatt in 2007 and 2008, proved vital to my future work In July…
And once again I face the red pen of doom (aka. the mss has been sent for editing)
A terrifying sight Part of this blog’s new mission is to document the process of turning my manuscript into an ebook. Today I completed a very important step:…
Review: The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher
The Silver Dark Sea by Susan Fletcher Image from Amazon: http://goo.gl/US9gu My rating: ***** Like all of Susan Fletcher’s books, this is a full-on treat for the senses–or,…