The above thread comes from my new social media home (Yes, I’ll update the links on the main page ASAP) on Bluesky (I decided to…
Author, screenwriter, general miscreant
Category: thoughts
Last year, I taught a workshop for the lovely Erskine Writer’s Group, where I talked about “writing the crime novel”, which of course meant that…
It’s been a long time since I posted to the website or updated anything. Not because I’ve had a lack of things happening, but perhaps…
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…
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…
