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  • Light and shadow

    Light and shadow

    I’m having a very pleasant Christmas break so far, with lots of catching up with friends and family, lots of good food and sociable drink, and I’m even getting a few things done around the garden despite the often very soggy weather we’ve been having. Unfortunately, while all this has been really nice, it has to a small extent been spoiled by yet another bout of seasonal lurgy, this latest a wonderful racking cough that sounds like I’m about to lose a lung, but in actuality is just a nuisance and an irritation. Read more…

  • Publish and be damned!

    Publish and be damned!

    Well I’ve finally done, I’ve pressed the big red button and my first novel is now available through Amazon in both paperback and kindle/eBook formats. It looks like such a straight-forward and simple thing when I see it written in black and white like that, but perhaps because it’s been such a long time coming (I began writing this novel in 2006 after all) there was still a significant part of me thinking there must be something more required than simply pressing the ‘Submit and Publish’ button on the printers website. Read more…

  • If at first . . .

    If at first . . .

    How time slides by when you suddenly end up with several more things to do than you’d banked on. As always this is down to several things, a stinker of cough and cold, which is still lingering on even now, causing me to fall behind with a couple of things, closely followed by the artist who had offered to create my cover art for me having to pull out due to other work commitments. Now, my not so fiendishly clever master plan for the next 12 – 15 months has been deceptively simple. Read more…