Many, many apologies for my long silence. I've been having a little trouble with an over-attentive blog-follower, but I learned about half an hour ago that he has now been dealt with. So here I am, ready to have opinions once more. Now: where were we? And where did I leave the chocolate?
I'm going to be talking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, on Wednesday 25th August. I'll be sharing the stage with Keith Charters, managing director of Strident Publishing, and we'll be discussing how writers can make the most of the publishing opportunities open to them. We'll be discussing such delights as ...
I've received a few emails over the last couple of weeks from readers who were used to following my old Blogger blog from within their own Blogger dashboards, and who now can't tell when I've posted something new here because there's no "Follow" widget on my new site. If you come into this category, and would ...
I've moved all of my lovely old blog into this nice shiny new one, but there's a whole slew of posts which seem to have lost their comments in the move. And now my internet connection is wilting again. I'll sort it all out early next week (I think I know what to do...) but ...
Some posts should be arriving here soon from my old Blogger address. Meanwhile make yourselves at home, try out the furniture, and let me know what still needs sorting out. And wipe your feet before you come in or I'll have a hissy fit.
Just in case anyone is wondering, I've designed this website using the Headway Wordpress theme, which you can find here. I have no coding ability, and built everything using Headway's very simple-to-use Visual Editor. If you can drag-and-drop, you can use Headway. If you prefer to code, you can use Headway. It's very easy, ...
I'm going to transport my orignal blog here very soon, but for now you’ll have to visit it over at its original home on Blogger. Click on this link and the magic of the internet will take you straight there. Meanwhile, as you're here, take a look around. This website is still very much a ...
Now that we've found Brenda Carter, we need to find someone else. Someone who could offer Charlie a lovely new home. Charlie is an eight-year-old neutered male cat, who looks to me as though he contains a fair amount of Maine Coon heritage, and here he ...
...you could be writing.You could let me know how much you've written, if you liked (I've written two articles this week, a handful of rough blog posts, and about 3,000 words of fiction, none of which are on my computer yet). And if you spot any interesting publishing-related articles or blog ...
I'm going to have to take a short break from my blog as my vision is failing again; I have posterior vitreous detachment, and it's going through one of its periodic flare-ups. I don't want to do any permanent damage to my sight, and over the last couple of days using the computer has ...
RJ Frith has won the War of the Words novel-writing competition with The Nemesis List. The competition was organised by publisher Tor UK and Sci Fi Now magazine, and attracted a high number and standard of entries. My warmest congratulations to RJ Frith for this significant win. It's richly deserved, and I hope it ...
Broadcaster and writer Sue Cook has a short series about writing and getting published running on Sunday evenings on BBC Radio Oxford. It's called The Write Lines: last week's episode is available to listen to again, and its next episode ...
I know, I know. As if I don't have enough trouble maintaining this blog without tearing my hair out, I now have a website. There's not much in it right now, and it looks rather, well, dull. But over the next couple of weeks I'll be stuffing it chock-full of all ...
Many apologies for the long break in transmission.Thanks to odd things happening with my blogger account, my ISP deciding I didn't really know who I was, and a particularly nasty troll, I've been unable to do anything with my blogs for a couple of weeks now.I think I've got everything nearly ...
Here's the thing. Remember that new computer which rescued me from having to undergo a complete internet withdrawal a couple of weeks ago? Well, it's slowly collapsing under the weight of its own short circuits, and so it looks like I'm going to actually have to buy a new computer now.If ...