Amazon blurb – “Tim Wassiter, P.I. isn’t a cynical old-school detective with a bottle in the desk, he’s the new-age version with chickens, tea – and a little bit of magic. His ex-partner scoffs, the old lady down the road just wants him to find her missing cat, but Tim knows that magic works. He’sContinue reading “The Girl from a Thousand Fathoms – Review”
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Writing about writing about writing review 1
As I explained in this blog post on Wednesday my writing books have outgrown the shelf above my desk (and my fiction and non-fiction shelves are already groaning) so I need to do a cull. I’m reviewing/re-reading them (which will take some time) and the first three (yes I read 3 books yesterday, but they’reContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing review 1”
Writing about writing about writing*
This title comes from Tom Bissell’s excellent book Magic Hours and this idea is inspired by his essay of the same title. As I explained in a previous post I seem to read a lot of writing advice books. However I am running out of shelf space and it’s about time I culled the onesContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing*”
Is your corpse exquisite?
The rather marvellous Rexx Deane gathered a group of authors together in an exercise to create a short story during lockdown. Each author had a few seconds and then passed to the next – I came near the end. You can watch the whole thing here:
One door closes
It is with regret that I’ve found out that KGHH is now defunct. The people at the publisher are creating a new publishing entity (restructuring etc.) but as this will take some time and my books will not be available during that time with them I have asked for my rights back. (I’ll be checkingContinue reading “One door closes”
Lock down head down
<Looks up from a pile of scribbles> What’s that? Oh yeah – I’m alive and I’m working hard on the latest revision of The Certainty of Dust which is now looking more like a novel. I’m just taking a very quick break from the word mines as I’ve received a little bad news about theContinue reading “Lock down head down”
Remember me to one who lives there
Things have got weird but we always have stories right? And this unassuming set of tales is due to drop in a little less than 24 hours. It seems like a long time ago (it was) when we discussed these three anthologies from Grimbold Books (Lost Gods and Unexpected Heroines are also due out soon)Continue reading “Remember me to one who lives there”
Writing Retreats
I was going to blog about the recent writing retreat I attended but Chrissey Harrison did such a good job I’m just going to share hers here
Sound the Retreat!
This weekend I’ll be attending my first writing retreat (but not my last as I’m also booked onto Milford in September.) I’m not entirely sure what to expect but aim to create a revision plan for Certainty and write the first draft of at least 1 story for Museum (and maybe more!) as well asContinue reading “Sound the Retreat!”
Everything is banal and jejune (or what I learned about writing by growing a beard)
When my beard was short I got a lot of comments that I looked like this guy Last year I let my beard grow (mostly – it does get tidied now and then) And now I think I look like But what lots of other people think I look like I mean, obviously a lotContinue reading “Everything is banal and jejune (or what I learned about writing by growing a beard)”
