Terrific news
I’m so pleased by this: Bill Uden, reader for the Mortal Ghost podcasts, has just been offered a place for the directing course (BA Honours) at Central Saint Martins, London!...
Parsley rising
I’ve always been an advocate of the ‘benign neglect’ school of child rearing, unconvinced of the benefits of either constant surveillance or ceaseless stimulation. Leave the poor kids alone to...
Do Not Enter
Nothing is more seductive to a teenager than the forbidden. Couple this with the abandoned, the derelict, the eerie, and you’ve got the ingredients of Nick Green’s thriller Cat’s Paw,...
Ron Slate
My contribution to Normblog series Writer’s Choice: poet Ron Slate.
After counting every
sheep in Cornwall, followed by a magnificent drive (and some light hiking in an even lighter snowfall) through Dartmoor, I’m now having a great deal of fun reading Philip Reeve’s...
The power of the unscene
While in the midst of writing a novel I spend a lot of time daydreaming my way through this situation or that conflict, often fully aware that a particular scene...
The challenge of competence
Jenny Davidson has written something well worth pondering in a comment to my last post, which I’m shifting up here to bring to your attention: But you know I believe...
Envy, or what it’s like to feel
stupid every day of your writing life. Lately I’ve given some thought to what I’m doing here – doing blogging. It’s grey and raindy outside (Jakob coined that one at...
Lemon lore
If you put a lemon under your pillow at night, you’ll have sweet dreams. Last night I dreamt of the lemon grove again. Do bees pollinate lemons? At sixteen I...
Noise: the film
Here’s a link to the website for the full-length film which is being made from my short story Noise. The site is still under development, but if you keep an...
A guest post
I’ve been busy, so Gypsy has kindly agreed to write a post in my stead. And here it is. The MP (Meal Provider) has promised not to read what I...
A small tale
Not so very long ago there were two composers. Let’s call them Amos and Zeb. Amos was a few years younger than Zeb, but his work was already becoming known...