It’s truly hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since my first published book, The Guns of Retribution, appeared for the Kindle. Published by Pulp Press, my pulp adventure set in the Old West tells the story of bounty hunter Grey O’Donnell, caught up in a blast from his past as he tries […]
Lee Child’s Writing Wisdom
Last night, Lee Child made an appearance at the Tyneside Cinema to discuss his newest Jack Reacher book, A Wanted Man, and to introduce a screening of Se7en, his favourite film. I first heard about the Reacher books when my dad started reading them, and I bought the first one, Killing Floor, to read in […]
The countdown begins
It’s hard to believe that Monday marks the one year anniversary since The Guns of Retribution came out for the Kindle – two weeks later, it’s the paperback release anniversary. Where on earth does the time go? I’m sure that proper authors don’t bother marking anniversaries in such a fashion but I’m still really proud […]
Bloody Parchment II submissions open
Anyone who reads this blog will know I have something of a fondness for horror. Therefore it won’t come as a surprise to learn that I’m working on a short story for an anthology competition in the Victorian horror vein! Why am I doing this? Well, I want to submit to the second volume of […]
#FridayFlash – 2:34am
She lay in bed, staring at the ceiling. She’d counted the cracks in the plaster too many times to remember, and the next step would be to name them. She rolled over and looked at the clock. The glowing green digits spelled out ‘2.34’. She growled, and hauled herself out of bed. I’m awake, so […]
Landscape and Writing
I had a brief visit to London over the Bank Holiday weekend, and ended up at the British Library for their Writing Britain exhibition. Now, I lived in London for seven years, and it is to my eternal shame that I only visited the British Library twice. It’s often easy to overlook the British Library […]
