The real adventurer in the family

Alba (daughter) and I took a little time out this week to visit my brother. His Windsurf Round Europe expedition saw him arrive in Dieppe, just across the English Channel from the UK. I regularly find myself trying to explain what he’s actually doing, but usually...

Back to work

It’s that time of year that children dread and parents dream of… The end of the summer holidays! I’ve taken an enforced break from writing over the summer which was a bit frustrating because I got so close to the end of book 3 before the holidays started, and now I’ve...

The Crab Scene

The Crab Scene The following scene is taken from The Wave at Hanging Rock, and I’ve put it here as perhaps the first time I ever got into a proper flow state when writing. I felt terrible afterwards, thinking I’d wasted a precious writing session, but then...

Where do stories come from?

Where do stories come from? Something happened last weekend to get me thinking about that. I was on a visit home, to where I grew up, on the East coast of England. My brother was there as well, and we decided to do something to help him with the training of his next...

One cool moment

Yesterday I got to experience a rather special moment. I finally got to hold in my hands my own book. An actual physical book that I’d written. In many ways this was a moment I’d dreamed about for years. I think it deserves a little blogpost… I did wonder if it...

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