Category: Blog
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How well do you get on with your neighbours?
I like to think of my computer, my phone or other gadgets as neighbours rather than tools. It’s not that I don’t have neighbours in the more conventional sense, but that I can’t help anthropomorphising them. (I’ve just stopped to think: how far away from where you live do people stop being neighbours? Does it depend on how densely populated…
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Train Yourself to Write
When I worked in London, I lived miles outside the UK’s capital city and spent many long hours commuting. I spent four hours on trains each working day. Two hours each way. What was I to do with that time? Read a book or a newspaper? Watch a movie on my phone or laptop? Stare…
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Devonshire Pixies
In nineteenth century Devon, pixies were everywhere. An article written at that time tells us about them and their shenanigans.
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Hollow Book 3!
The third book in the Hollow fantasy series, A Taste of Steel, is available from your favourite online store!
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Never tell anyone your dreams
We’re having a pint together in the pub, sitting at an old wooden table at the back of the room next to a fly-specked poster advertising a gig featuring a pop group from the eighties. There’s only one other patron in the place. He leans sideways against the wall, his grey hair pressed against a…
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Vanes to Increase the Effectiveness of Horizontal Wind Turbines
In the spirit of giving away ideas that might make a difference, I’ve written this wind turbines post to bang on about an idea I had years ago. I’ve searched the internet over the last few days and I haven’t found anyone else who’s had the same idea. Either that means it’s a terrible concept…
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Here be Dragons: 5 Best Dragons in Literature
On the whole, you wouldn’t want to bump into a dragon down a dark alley or in a cave or… pretty much anywhere actually. Books are where you can meet a dragon from the safety of your armchair. The books in this post are my favourites.
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Generosity
A couple of weekends ago I went to the BMFA Power Nationals. The “Nats”, as we cognoscenti call it, is the premier event in the UK for powered model planes (oh, and helicopters *raspberry*). It takes place over the August bank holiday weekend, it’s held on an RAF airfield near Grantham and attracts people from…
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New Release: The Persistence of Poison
‘When are you going to release your next book?’ I get asked that a lot. Well, I’m pleased – no, delighted! – to announce the release of a new book in the Hollow series. It’s a prequel that tells the story of how Vester, a human and one of the main antagonists in book one…
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Show not Tell Thursday
I’ve been using Scrivener for a couple of years now. For those who don’t know what Scrivener is, it’s software for writing books and it comes from a company called Literature and Latte. It’s a popular piece of software used by many writers around the world. I won’t sing Scrivener’s praises too much, suffice to…
