Very nice to see my mugshot and book cover in the biggest and bestselling mag for anyone in the UK who writes – ‘Writing Magazine.’ Wa-hey! The title of the article was ‘It’s not so grim up north’ and this got me to thinking about why we associate the North with being ‘grim’ anyway. Personally, […]
Read this! Or they’ll run me over with a cement mixer!
Who remembers those chain letters – back in the days when we used to actually take time to write on paper to each other? My hero – Calvin does, of course… Well, here is the blog equivalent. The Writing Blog version. Entitled ‘The Monday Blog.’ I pick up the baton from the creator of Inspector […]
WUDE WORDS FOR WORLD BOOK DAY
Everyone in our house enjoys World Book Day. Even more so this year! The 5 year old’s school requested him to dress up as a character from his favourite book (disappointing me somewhat…I was hoping that he wanted to go as something rather literary, rather serious – such as Aslan the Lion, but no….bloody Spiderman. […]
The Book Has Left The Building…
It’s finally up there for people to buy. My first fiction book. You can find it on Amazon here. I allowed myself a small, self-indulgent moment when the first dribblings of tweets and publicity trails arrived. I felt good about the fact that I’m honestly not out to make money from this book. It’s always […]