Jon Mackley

Over the past several years, I have been collating and transcribing stories that I’ve started to publish as The Spring-Heeled Jack...

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 is on us again. Some people are approaching it with excitement, others with trepidation. But all with the intention of creating...

NaNoWriMo September is drawing near. That means it’s only two months away from beginning the latest challenge for National Novel Writing...

Some years ago, I undertook some training to supervise PhDs, and this was the first opportunity that I felt able to talk about the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I had forgotten that writing a novel is an endurance sport mixed in with monastic solitude. But, here we are at the end of National Novel...