Jan 19, 2017
There are so many choices for an author to make when embarking on a novel. What time period? What setting? What structure? What genre? What characters? What events? How true should it be to real history? What is the time frame? What is it all really about? Many of...
Nov 10, 2014
I was delighted to see that 22 year old Megan Knowles-Bacon has just become the first female officer of the Magic Circle. I have recently developed an interest in magic myself. Not in performing it, I hasten to say, but in watching it and in analysing its techniques....
Nov 26, 2013
There’s nothing worse than indecision. It is debilitating, frustrating and exhausting. All those ‘Should I/shouldn’t I’s, ‘But what if’s, ‘Which’s, ‘When’s and ‘How’s cause our little brains to work overtime, jumping from one option to another like demented fleas. And...
Sep 22, 2013
By any standard writing a novel is a long hard grind. Despite popular opinion, very few novelists ever hit the real mega buck level (many don’t hit any buck level at all). But yet judging from the plethora of wannabe novelists on Twitter and Facebook, it appears that...
