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Read here the latest news of my adventures in publishing. Hopefully of interest not just to readers of my novels, but to other writers, as I share the thrills and spills of self-publishing!
Write what you know – The Curious Case of Yesterday’s Shadow
It has been two years since my last confession – that confession being the publication of my third novel, Yesterday’s Shadow. It’s a work of autofiction, written at a time when I didn’t know that genre was defined with its own word. Its genesis, for better or worse, was in a slavish adherence to that old…
The Delights of the Not-Quite-So-Bad Second Draft
In a previous post, I shared the first part of my method for drafting and editing a novel. In short, the secret is to embrace the idea that your first draft will be rubbish and just concentrate on getting the ideas down. That’s what I’ve been doing with my new novel, Beach of Spies, and about two…
It’s February. Happy New Year!
(I think I may have brought myself a year of bad luck by saying that, but since this is my first update of 2026, it seems appropriate.) You may have noticed a bit of radio silence towards the end of 2025 and the beginning of this year. This was due to a number of things:…
The Six Steps to Salvation Geneva tour, part 2
Picking up hot on the heels of last week’s post, here’s a compendium of (almost) all the other places that appear in my latest satirical novel, Six Steps for Salvation, available here on Amazon. The Salève Here are some shots of the Salève, which I rather shamefully diss for a cheap laugh in the novel.…
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