I'm a fan of TV detective dramas. My wife would say I have an unhealthy obsession. She routinely calls them Murder, Death, Kill as in, "I...

With the recent expected acquittal of ex-President Trump at his second impeachment trial, many of us hope we have witnessed the final act...

Early in December I caught some bug that laid me so low I spent most of the month in bed watching TV. I got to watch all those episodes...

Happy New Year! What else can be said? Many will consider 2019 the worst year of their life and be glad it's passed, though, as usual, in...

In the very first BBC Question Time following the EU referendum result in 2016 there were leave backing members of the audience lashing...

I grew up in the 60s, a decade of endless optimism and staggering achievements, which is the way I care to remember it, enshrined in...

My FB feed is currently being bombarded with adverts on self publishing, everything from the Kindle-Amazon kind, through established...

Having completed The Long Year, I was scratching around for a new project and alighted on an old one. Many years ago I wrote a comic...

News: there isn't going to be one, or at least the gold plated unicorns are not arriving any time soon. Even the most ardent supporters...

I'm grateful to Debbie Richardson of the Fiction Writers' Club for taking the time and trouble to share her thoughts on genre writing,...

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to give the Prime Minister his full name, is a proven serial liar, and many have said so, most...

I might have been guilty of putting the cart before the horse with my previous post, Getting Published. Naturally, first I have to get...

I've written umpteen novels over many years. I currently have 7 manuscripts I consider ready to publish, in the sense that I've worked...