Author of the Fantastical and Macabre
Six months? Already? Well, certainly as the calendar reads, but whoever believes those things anyway? What follows is a brief interview with a mirror… Are you finished? In short… no, “GLADE” is not ‘finished’. Despite having largely written “GLADE”, I cannot bring myself to call …
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Sometimes, all the barbed wire and ‘keep out’ signs in the world just won’t stop someone determined to slap you with a challenge. On this particular occasion, it happened to be Sarah Zama over at “The Old Shelter” that slipped through the carefully prepared defences …
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As some might already know, I’ve had an ‘enforced break’ for a number of weeks due to the recent death of my long-serving laptop, Mac. A combination of age, excessive use, and a terminal battery attack did for him in the end. Although it happened quite suddenly, it was …
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There will no doubt be a plethora of blog postings today relating to Shakespeare. It is, after all, supposed to be the birth and death of the great bard. No one actually knows the correct dates. We know that Will was baptised on April 26th, 1564, …
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It’s been a while since I gave an update regarding “GLADE“. In short, the book is very nearly complete. It will not, however, be released before the next deadline comes… and goes. As a result, I’ve taken down the counter. There really is no point …
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Some useful advice that I always follow when writing anything.
“Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it;
scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon;
digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth;
never venture a whisper about it to your friend,
if he be an author especially.”– A. Bronson Alcott
So, there you are. You’re sat at a table eating dinner in a restaurant. You’ve seen them coming from out of the corner of your eye. Anxiety eats at you as you know that you will probably be next. You hear them approach before a …
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This is a song that I have long enjoyed and which served as inspiration for a poem that I wrote recently for a scene within “GLADE“. It is a soldier’s farewell song to his beloved. “The Rose of Allendale” is actually an English song written …
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