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Writing Insights – Plotting: A Cat and Mouse analogy
I’m currently writing the third book in my Dieselpunk series, named after the first book ‘Through Glass Darkly’. This was a fun project I started after attending the Asylum Steampunk Festival in Lincoln @AsylumSteampunk, which was full of some fabulous people, with wonderful names, wearing amazing costumes along with some truly ingenious contraptions, from weapons and armour to hats, wings and mock scientific paraphernalia. Read more…
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Author inspirations – the characters of W. Somerset Maugham
I’m doing some research on 1930s China for the follow up to my ‘Flames of Time’ Archaeologic Adventure trilogy, and after browsing around one of my local bookshops I picked up a copy of W.Somerset Maugham’s ‘On a Chinese Screen’. Read more…