Part of my first job on leaving Uni was in the quality assurance section of a scientific organisation. Believe it or not, before the late 1970s little of it existed. After all everyone was doing […]
Tag: Life
What does it take to be a writer? – Persistence
For most writers success is not an overnight event. One of my all time, and sadly missed, writer heroes, Iain Banks, completed five or six books before being published. He persisted. Now I write this […]
Meet Inspector Kirby
Inspector Kirby, Jonah to his friends and ‘old school’ to his junior colleagues, wandered out of the cottage. He crossed the road and headed down the lane, with thorny hedge rows either side, that led […]
Getting into your characters – Inspector Kirby and Harold Longcoat
My latest project, Inspector Kirby and Harold Longcoat, due to be launched in a few week’s time, was great fun to write. Possibly, because it’s a change from my normal diet of science fiction, set […]
Indie authors – relish cross genre fiction
I enjoy my science fiction and my fantasy. When I pick up a book (or these days download) in one of these genres I guess I know what I’m getting, I’m on safe ground. Also, […]