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Why You Don’t Need Meat
The UK #1 National Bestseller That Launched The Vegetarian Revolution
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The Song of Bert and Harry: Off the Record
Casual conversation between two old friends can often stray into the realms of political incorrectness.
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If Worldbuilding Were Left To Its Own Devices
Will 491 Pages on a Geological Formation Be Enough?
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Get up, pull yourself together, and get back at it!
Get back into what you love after a life event interferes with your routine.
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Mirrors of Obsidian Water: Divination in the Black Marsh
Creating eternity for readers who will not linger long enough to notice
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Love and Brains, the beginning
This is part one of two in a fictional short story
Funny
Scary
Action
📖4–5 min read
Time
I can be saved but never spent, wasted but never lent.
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖2–4 min read
The Song of Bert and Harry: Off the Record
Casual conversation between two old friends can often stray into the realms of political incorrectness.
Humour
Emotion
Serendipity
📖3–5 min read
If Worldbuilding Were Left To Its Own Devices
Will 491 Pages on a Geological Formation Be Enough?
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖1–3 min read
Get up, pull yourself together, and get back at it!
Get back into what you love after a life event interferes with your routine.
Adventurous
Storyteller
Mirrors of Obsidian Water: Divination in the Black Marsh
Creating eternity for readers who will not linger long enough to notice
Wonder.
Shadow.
Fire.
📖2–3 min read
The Critique Conversation
How to improve your writing craft and increase your chances of publication
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖4–6 min read
The Other Side of the Table
What it’s like to be a judge in a writing competition...
Romance
Fantasy
📖3–4 min read
Lit Mags for Beginners – Part One
The Wonderful World of Literary Magazines
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖4–6 min read
Days Like Those: Jacob, James and the BSG
Oh, The Okey-Rokey-Rah-Rah
Humour
Emotion
Serendipity
📖1–3 min read
Matt-y numty had a great fall
Kindness may not kill, but it can shove you down the stairs
Funny
Scary
Action
📖3–5 min read
Winging it
Disclaimer - apply the ‘winging it’ method with wild abandon to much of life, just maybe not brain surgery or rocket science
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖2–3 min read
The Monster We Were Promised
When Stories Lose Their Nerve
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Character Building
Did you meet your characters or create them?
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖2–3 min read
Plain Grocery Stores
Where the Amish (and other anti-materialists) shop
Precise
Opinionated
Fun
📖4–5 min read
Twice as Sexy as Madonna
Fiction Inspired by Second-Hand Love Letters
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖4–5 min read
If Plot Were an Artisan
The Director Meets Their Match
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–4 min read
Nationhood Found
A nation, a soup, and maybe a bit of a life too.
Precise
Opinionated
Fun
📖4–5 min read
Christmas on the Equator
A Lesson in Gracious Competence
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖1–3 min read
Sunnyside: A Man Without a Country
In Sunnyside Queens, I discovered some tasty little cookies and at least a few more family lies.
Precise
Opinionated
Fun
📖4–6 min read
If Genres Were Dating
Scenes from the the Genre Wars - Part II
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
The Stillness of a Spellbound Audience
Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Under the Influence of Irving – A Review of Queen Esther
Please, Sir, I Want Some More
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖4–5 min read
The Language Of Place
What the hell is she blathering about?
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖2–4 min read
If the Protagonist Had Slept in
The Talk They Needed to Have
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
A Fresh Start
Starting over is never much fun, but sometimes it’s necessary.
Humorous
Fantasy
Playful
📖2–3 min read
The Book They Actually Wanted
The World's Toughest Literary Critics
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Where it all started
Halcyon days of a mis-spent youth
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖3–5 min read
If Genre Were A Custody Battle
Scenes from the Genre Wars - Part I
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖3–4 min read
If the First Draft Were a Rehearsal
Notes from a Writer Among Dancers - Part II
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Second-Hand Love Letters – Part Two
A Reading List and Lusty Roger
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖2–3 min read
Gold is a pain in the ass, Part 3 and summary.
Size matters, and with gold coins, smaller is better.
Escapist
Fantasy
Romp
📖4–5 min read
Golden Hour, Interrupted
When Ideas Are Lost to Traffic
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
You’ve Got Your Mother in a Whirl
Personal Reflections on Gender
Music
LGBTQIA+
Outsider
📖4–6 min read
How Interesting Are Your Characters?
Complexity, Likeability and Believability
Romance
Fantasy
📖2–4 min read
Gold is a pain in the ass, Part 2
Ok, so what does this gold stuff buy anyway?
Escapist
Fantasy
Romp
📖3–4 min read
Gold is a pain in the ass, Part 1
Got a grip on gold, fantasy writers? You may be surprised at how much it matters.
Escapist
Fantasy
Romp
📖4–5 min read
The Song of Bert and Harry: Sugar
Potentially Dangerous to Health
Humour
Emotion
Serendipity
📖2–3 min read
Why Is This Your Character’s Story To Tell?
"This time, it's personal."
Romance
Fantasy
📖2–4 min read
If Writing Were Choreographed
Notes from a Writer among Dancers
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Freeing Caged Lions
On Artistic Courage in the Face of Doubt
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖2–3 min read
Farty Towels?
Hospitality: The art of making guests feel at home while secretly wishing they'd leave.
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
📖3–4 min read
The Song of Bert and Harry: The Name of that Pub
It wasn't the Banana Arms
Humour
Emotion
Serendipity
📖3–4 min read
The Jewel of Derwentwater – behind the book
Inspiration, perspiration and (sleep) deprivation
Speculative
Historical
Adventure
The Pink Coupe at the Catch-All Station
Where the Leftovers Go
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖3–5 min read
What We Feed Strangers
On Slippery Foods and Stubborn Hospitality
Science‑infused
Fantasy
Ecological
📖3–4 min read