Unfurling the leaves of Stephen King's unfinished novel, The Plant
I recently reread The Plant by Stephen King. It’s one of his lesser-known works. He published sections of it privately as a kind of...
The return of Spring-Heeled Jack: The Terror of London
Over the past several years, I have been collating and transcribing stories that I’ve started to publish as The Spring-Heeled Jack...
Writing the World Beyond Lockdown
Writing a novel in the Covid-19 Lockdown Like everyone else, Coronavirus is on my mind and how it will affect us in the near (and far)...
NaNoWriMo 2018 A Survival Guide
NaNoWriMo is on us again. Some people are approaching it with excitement, others with trepidation. But all with the intention of creating...
Countdown to NaNoWriMo - structuring your novel
NaNoWriMo September is drawing near. That means it’s only two months away from beginning the latest challenge for National Novel Writing...
Dealing with Depression: The Impostor Phenomenon
Some years ago, I undertook some training to supervise PhDs, and this was the first opportunity that I felt able to talk about the...
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet and The Tenth Season Finale
The current series of Doctor Who is coming to its conclusion, taking the Twelfth Doctor with it. Just as when Russell T Davies left the...
Who's the Murderer?
I think I have a new book coming out soon. It’s been a long time in the pipeline: I submitted the finished typescript in 2014 and then...
Learning to Read Again - Dealing with Depression
A decade ago was one of those times when my depression was really severe. Much of the time, I was cocooned in my bed, sometimes I...
Telling us stories we already know (part 1)
There’s a new Star Wars film coming out this week. I’m looking forward to it, but I’m not as excited as I was this time last year when...
