Somewhat of a picture-heavy post this one, I expect, but we’ll see. So, while I’m waiting to do the final edits on DARK SKY I’ve been amusing myself by fiddling around with a fantasy project. Well, I say ‘fantasy’: in… Read moreThe Royal Armouries, Leeds

You can choose to read that to the tune of ‘All The Small Things’ by Blink-182 if you want, although I’m not sure why you would. Perhaps because Tom DeLonge has left them (again) in acrimonious circumstances (again) and hopefully… Read moreALL THE GOOD THINGS

This week, I have been watching Winterwatch. For those of you who haven’t seen it, Winterwatch (an off-shoot of first Springwatch and then Autumnwatch – Summer doesn’t get its own watch for some reason) is a show about winter in… Read moreIn praise of Winterwatch

Written one day before the end, as I’m at a party tomorrow night where I will be watching other people get a bit drunk, and possibly end up playing some sort of game. My friends are not the riotous type,… Read more2014 In Review

I got the page proofs through from Del Rey. They look like this: It turns out that my humble 99,000 word offering clocks in at a massive FOUR-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY PAGES. It’s feasible that you could use my debut novel as a… Read morePAGES. SO MANY PAGES.

I haven’t updated much recently. That’s mainly because I’ve been busy. Partly because I was DJing on Hallowe’en night and my band’s had two gigs since then, but also because I’ve been EDITING. In fact, I’ve been editing both DARK… Read moreThe rock n’ roll editing lifestyle

So, after the fun times of seeing the cover for Dark Run going up at Frankfurt Book Fayre, I went to the Lake District for a week and walked up some mountains. On the basis that man cannot survive on… Read moreFells n’ stuff

So, yesterday I was at work when I was mentioned in a tweet from my editor, Michael Rowley at Del Rey UK. The tweet was a photo of the front cover for DARK RUN, which is currently being displayed to… Read moreEXCITING DEVELOPMENTS!

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