A Day of Words
On 29th March, I was giving a talk about my book, Dear Magpies, at the Blandford Literary Festival's Day of Words. It took place in the Woodhouse Gardens Pavilion. My talk was entitled: From Dorset with Love, because the novel [...]
Book Launch in Sherborne
Two weeks tomorrow, on Thursday 21st November at 6.30pm for 7pm, I am having a Book Launch for my new book Dear Magpies, at Winstones Books in Cheap Street, Sherborne, DT9 3PX. I will be giving a talk about my [...]
Dear Magpies
Creating a book and getting it out into the world is a little like having a baby - though it usually takes far longer. It grows more erratically and more slowly and its birth involves many people of different skills. [...]
PEP Talk
It's been over 4 weeks since I finished my book. I felt elated even though I knew it was only the first draft. After 10 months and some 95,000 words, I needed a break from it, and decided not to [...]
Independent Bookshops are great!
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 [...]
Moving on to new Work
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 [...]