The wind is blowing today and swirling the leaves around, autumnal messages from the trees to the earth below, red songs, yellow secrets, laments in purple and whispers in brown. Millions of millions of leaves, each one entirely unique, soon [...]
It's always a challenge to give a informative entertaining talk to a group of people who have come to an event and are gathered to listen to what I say. Recently I was the Guest Speaker at the Autumn Lunch [...]
All bookshops are marvellous places but a good independent bookshop is really worth supporting. I'm lucky enough to have a book signing next weekend on Saturday 19th September at Winstone's Book Shop in Cheap Street, Sherborne in Dorset. Winstone’s is [...]
My third book has been published this summer by Onwards and Upwards – a novel called The Lost Journey Homeward. It is a contemporary take on the parable of the Prodigal Son, though in my book the prodigal is a [...]
Authors must help their publishers to market their own books these days. We tend to target local booksellers to hold book launches, talks and signings in our own areas, where we know people and can spread the word or [...]
I love painting watercolours as well as writing fiction, and I've done both for some years. I belong to the Milton Abbas Art Group and every summer we hold a group exhibition when, along with the other members, I exhibit [...]
I woke up the other morning with a bunch of plot ideas in connection with my next book, a novel to be set in Dorset. In the earlier part of the year, I was doing research on the locations and [...]
The Dorset Midsummer Music and Food Festival on Saturday 20th June at Warren Farm on Bulbarrow Hill was so enjoyable! During the day, at the bookstall, I was selling and signing copies of my new book THE LOST JOURNEY HOMEWARD [...]
My new book 'The Lost Journey Homeward' has been well and truly launched - on Sunday 14th June. I decided to do this At Home - in my own garden in Dorset. My last two books had their launch parties [...]
Strange to think, now my new book is for sale, that soon people might be reading 'The Lost Journey Homeward', turning the pages and assessing whether they like the story and what they think about my friends, the characters. It's [...]