I have a new book. It’s called EXIT. It’s out now. Please buy it. That’s what I want to say. The story disapproves of my directness. It wants me to delete the above sentence. I don’t. I won’t. Many authors will tell you that writing …
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01134 – book release
About that short story… I started writing the idea back in December 2016 while I was passing through Kansai International Airport. I was just starting my winter vacation and was thinking about cracking on with Glade. Unfortunately, those good intentions got lost in transit and …
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Love/Hate Challenge
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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The Rose of Allendale
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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A Valentine’s Tale
Here’s the last Valentine’s poem I’ll post. I wrote this for someone back in 2005. Despite the lack of reaction it garnered at the time, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this. I tested it out on a class of children I was teaching at the time and …
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The Unspoken Poem
Here is another poem that I wrote for Valentine’s Day. This one was actually written in the first days of January for someone close to me. She had made me a small book out of folded paper. It was about matchbox size. Within were ten pages with a front …
Read MoreThe Fallen Leaves
Life can sometimes seem unchanging in its progression through time. Every clock turning backwards mockingly with every furtive glance. At other times it may change suddenly and without care as though an earthquake has just torn asunder all that you held dear. All around you …
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