Golly, sequels are hard…

A couple of months back I announced I was working on a second book to my novel ‘The Things you find in Rockpools’. It’s been my most successful story to date, and features an 11-year old kid named Billy who uses his ingenuity to outsmart adults and gets everything a...

Happy New Year 2019

I’m heading into 2019 feeling unusually positive. Let me explain why. Like most people I usually start January resolving to lose a bit of weight, or get a bit fitter, or give up alcohol, and also like most people I find it a bit of a drag, and give-up giving-up...

Lucy Clarke & You Let Me In…

Six years ago I was working for my local council trying to attract more shoppers to an ailing town centre. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but it wasn’t that. At the time I heard about a friend of a friend who was looking for feedback on her...

The Dog that Mooed

As those of you with children will be all too aware, it’s the summer holidays and parents are briefly given sole responsibility for keeping their offspring entertained for six long weeks. As an author/stay at home dad, that means my writing time is basically put on...

Ten books that shaped me

Over the past few months I’ve been meaning, and largely failing, to share some details of myself and my writing on this blog. It’s hard to find the time, what with writing so much to get the books done, and the time demands of two very lovely children. But more than...

A plotter or a pantser?

How do I write my novels? Am I a plotter or a pantser? Since coming out as an author I’ve become part of a community I didn’t know existed, of other authors and would-be authors, and web designers, podcasters, editors, cover designers and creators of the...

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