Do you have any books which you think of like friends? Perhaps you have known them for a long time, and, reliably, they bring you comfort...

After I finish a book, I always take a couple of months off before I start the next one. It gives me time to enjoy some reading and to...

It was World Bee Day yesterday (May 20th) and I thought I would write a little about this fascinating creature which features so...

As I write this blogpost on my laptop computer, I have been musing on the ways in which we, in our world, read and write, and how it...

Many readers are especially interested in the way in which the Oramian and Kashiqi calendars are organised and in how they compare to our...

Readers will be familiar with the markets of Oramia and Kashiq, but I thought it might be interesting to write a little more about them,...

Hi everyone! Once again, apologies for not doing very well at keeping up with my blog! I am resolved to do better! I have great news for...

Hello everyone! I know its been quite some time since I last wrote on my blog, for which I apologise. We have found ourselves in a...

Today's blog post will be around the subject of belief in the land of Oramia which we discover in Flammeus, the first book of The...

So...what everyone wants to know is...how is the next book in The Emberjar series coming along? When will it be out? Can you give us any...

So what is a beta reader, and, perhaps more importantly, how can you be an alpha beta reader? A beta reader is a reader who reads an...

One of the questions you often get asked as an author is how you plan your books. Are you a plotter or a pantser? A plotter is a writer...

One of the things which seems to be of most interest to people when they find out that you have written a novel is the matter of where...

People like to ask writers what they have written. Sometimes its a word count they are after. But which words do they mean? For every...

Today's blog focuses on the ways in which friends and supporters of authors, especially indie authors such as myself, can play their part...

I wanted to write today about the thorny issue of genre and pigeonholing( or should that be dragonholing?) Writing as someone who...

" Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful...

The e-book of Flammeus is now live on Amazon! The paperback version will be following shortly, once Amazon have completed their review...

It's getting exciting! Also nerve-wracking, busy, fulfilling and ever so slightly terrifying! Last minute lookthroughs of preview copies...

It's a week until my book Flammeus is published on Amazon. It feels like it has been a long journey. I have always been a voracious...