by Gregg | Dec 11, 2020 | General, New Release, On Writing...
I’m just back from the airport, where I dropped my brother off. He’s flying to the very northern tip of Norway, the same place where he started his epic round-Europe windsurf – this was where he sailed alone, and unsupported, thousands of miles of Atlantic and...
by Gregg | Aug 15, 2020 | General, On Writing...
I haven’t written for a while and I’m sorry about that. But I do have a kind of excuse. I’ve suffered from a very common form of lockdown-pandemic-itis, which is a new word I’ve just invented to describe the experience of living through 2020. It’s a combination of...
by Gregg | May 24, 2020 | New Release, On Writing...
As we all know these are unusual times, so last week I decided to combine my new home-schooling duties with the need to do something to promote this month’s launch of The Appearance of Mystery (the third book in the Rockpools series). The idea was for our eight year...
by Gregg | Feb 27, 2020 | General, On Writing..., Uncategorized
Where do stories come from? I’m sometimes asked where the ideas for my books come from. The answer is usually rather mundane – I’ll start from something I see on TV, or read in a newspaper. But sometimes it’s a bit more interesting. For one of my books, the idea came...
by Gregg | Dec 18, 2019 | General, On Writing...
Not a lot of people know this, but before I became an author my job was to ‘deliver Christmas’. In my home town of Bournemouth at least. No, I wasn’t Santa, nor one of his Elves, but somehow I found myself running a not-for-profit company that worked with the shops in...
by Gregg | Sep 10, 2019 | General, On Writing...
A quick note to say thank you to everyone who downloaded or reviewed The Glass Tower last week. As I mentioned it didn’t have a terribly successful launch. It was languishing in that sad, unseen part of the Amazon’s store where books go to slowly die. But I’m happy to...
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