The responsibilities of a self-publishing author

In the last few years self-publishing has gone from being thought of as only something for the unpublishable (and by definition second class) to being a real choice for new authors.  It is so easy […]

A writer’s resolutions for 2015

OK I did this last year and it was only at the end of 2014 that I looked back at what I’d set myself.  So maybe one resolution should be to review my resolutions more […]

Writers – enjoy those revisions

I know, I know, you’ve finally finished that first draft.  It has taken months, you’re proud it, it’s your best work yet and now you’re faced with being critical of it.  Also you have an […]

Science fiction – 25 things it has taught me

After last week’s slightly, perhaps, gloomy blog ‘Do we have a future to look forward to’ I thought I had better lighten things up a little this week.  So as any regular reader of my […]

My advice to writers – take a walk

For those who have followed my blog you’ll see from some of the photos (e.g. the front page) that I occasionally go walking.  I’m not fanatical, always out there, striding across the hills, but I […]