Although I’ve primarily written novels and short stories, I always wanted to write for the screen. My earliest efforts at writing were (bad) screenplays —…
Author, screenwriter, general miscreant
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When I spent a few years reading slush pile manuscripts for a small publisher, I started to realise that the manuscripts which failed to engage…
Another week, another round up of my reads and views of late. The reading was a little light this week due to editing work taking…
If you followed me on Twitter/X/Whatever the hell that is now, you’ll know that I’ll usually put up what I’m watching or reading with a…
Writing — writing fiction especially — is a strange business. We are, in essence, magicians, convincing people that something that is patently unreal is actually…
There’s a quote I saw recently, attributed to the movie critic, Roger Ebert, that goes, “for me, the movies are like a machine that generates…
