My New Author Newsletter Issue 1
After several years of procrastination, I’ve finally set up my monthly author newsletter. If you would like to subscribe, click on the newsletter link at the top of the page. A copy of the first edition appears below. Please note that these are photos and the links contained are not clickable.
An Ideal Christmas Read
My previous book, Another Life, is a modern retelling of everyone’s favourite Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful Life. A tale of love, loss and redemption. Available from all good bookshops and online. For Essex readers, it is in stock at Maldon Books, The Wivenhoe Bookshop and Red Lion Books. Reviewed by the British Fantasy Society […]
Fenja And Menja, The Grotte-Mill And The Fimbul Winter
An important element in my Invisible College Trilogy is the Book of Mysteries, entitled Temple Walden - A View of Its History, Origins and the World Order. The title page identifies it as An account of the ancient mysteries, as recorded with diligence through the ages and recounting the truth and destiny of the true […]
Stone Devil From The Invisible College Trilogy
The statue of the Stone Devil that features in my YA series, The Invisible College Trilogy and appears in the cover design for book 2, ‘Dust and Shadows, is based on this photograph I took some years ago. I'm glad I did, as it has since disappeared. In book one, ’They Do Things Differently Here’, […]
A Storyteller's Christmas: Saturday 18th November 2017, Leigh-on-Sea
Together with 33 other local authors, I took a table at this event, which included book signings, storytelling and the opportunity to meet the authors (and some of their characters). Books for all ages and a raffle in aid of Southend Mencap SaveSave
The Invisible College Trilogy: Two Years on...
This was indeed a proud moment when, two years ago, I received my five author's copies of They Do Things Differently Here, book 1 of The Invisible College Trilogy. Over the past two years I have enjoyed many new experiences, including three appearances on BBC Essex Tony FisherLive, three more on Sarah Banham's Writer's Block […]
Invisible College Gin Now Available!
How cool is this? A bespoke bottle of gin, distilled by Adnams to include my preferred botanicals and named after my YA trilogy! So how did this come to be produced? My daughter Emily, proprietor of the respected and popular Bristol Bites food blog, entered a competition to create your own gin...and she was the […]
August 2017: The Beginning of Autumn
I'm sure that autumn arrives a month earlier than it used to. On my early morning walk today, the first of August, there were definite signs. I was pleased that my secret supply of wild raspberries was not completely exhausted. These are hidden in a remote part of the local woods that not many know […]