What a year!
Yesterday somebody from my local newspaper phoned me up to ask about my latest book. It was a bit out of the blue as they’d expressed an...
Exercise
An author colleague posted recently on Facebook that she’d been for a walk and it had helped her to sort through her ideas for a new...
Eeek!
On April 30th this year I was a nervous wreck. My debut novel, ‘Forgotten’ was due to be released the following day. I’d spent most of...
Borderlines
When I moved to Carlisle, more than twenty years ago, I was surprised to find that it was lacking some of the cultural venues that might...
Gizza job...
There’s a huge difference between writing creatively and writing for a practical purpose. I can sit at my computer faced with a blank...
The past is a foreign country...
I love history. Last weekend I went for a walk on the moors above Allendale in the north Pennines and I was fascinated by the industrial...