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Essex Book Festival 2020: Local Authors’ Day 7th March

I am looking forward to hosting a discussion session at Chelmsford Library, 10.00-11.30, Saturday 7th March 2020, entitled ‘Using Familiar Landscapes to Inspire Fictional Locations’. The session is described as follows: ‘An author-led discussion session to show and discuss how familiar features in the Essex countryside can be used as the inspiration for creating new […]

Essex Book Festival 2019: Essex Authors and You

Come along this coming Saturday 9th March to the Essex Authors and You day at Chelmsford library. From 10.00 to 16.00 local authors will be holding seminars and talks. Between 12.00 and 14.00 there are opportunities to chat informally with many of the writers on a one-to-one basis and to listen to them introduce themselves […]

Essex Authors’ Day, Chelmsford, Saturday 17th March 2018

I thoroughly enjoyed the Essex Authors’ Day, on Saturday 17 March at Chelmsford, Essex, library. An Essex Book Festival event, it featured over forty local writers giving talks, readings and ‘Meet The Author’ sessions. All presentations were free. My talk on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’ was well-attended. I described a number of sub-genres and offered suggestions […]

Busy Working on My Seminar for the Essex Book Festival 2018

I am currently busy working on my presentation/seminar on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’ at the Essex Authors’ Day, Saturday 17th March at Essex Libraries, Chelmsford, part of the Essex Book Festival. The session will be an interactive presentation and discussion of Speculative Fiction. I will give an outline of the genres and sub-genres, listing examples of the main […]

Essex Book Festival 2018: Essex Authors Day, Saturday 17th March

Essex Book Festival 2018 On Saturday 17th March I will be holding a forty-five minute seminar from 10a.m. at Chelmsford library, with the title ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’. I will also be giving an author reading and have a ‘Meet the Author’ session. More details to follow. I look forward to meeting friends and readers.

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 […]

More Essex Bookshops to Stock The Invisible College Trilogy

A good week on the marketing front. With my Essex Book Festival talks at the Essex Authors’ Day and the Southend Area Local Authors’ Day just two weeks away (18th/19th March) I am delighted that several more Essex bookshops have agreed to stock titles in The Invisible College Trilogy. Waterstones, Southend-on-Sea, has agreed to stock all three titles (They Do Things Differently […]

SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day 18-19 March 2017

Described in the Essex Book Festival programme as: ‘A weekend of talks, storytelling, readings and workshops by very talented and colourful local authors, whose work spans a wide variety of genres, from local history, fiction and non- fiction, to fantasy, science fiction and children’s books.’ An enjoyable weekend, which I hope will become an […]