I only recently come across this concept – post six sentences from a longer piece on a Sunday. Nice idea, so here’s my first offering. These six sentences come from Kissed by a Rose, which gets it’s print release next week. If you can’t wait for the print, you can…

Okay, Okay, I watch the X-factor. Don’t hate me for it. Mind you, sometimes I hate myself for it. This week for example. I hated myself for watching it this week. Why? Well, it was 80s night, and boy did it make me feel old. This was partly because most…

For the past couple of days I’ve been looking back over some of my blog posts from as far back as 2007. Okay, so it’s not that far back, and for some reason my archive stops in July 2007 then restarts in January 2008 – I suspect I was only…

So, how do we all think that young Joe McElderry is feeling this morning having won Britain’s biggest talent contest? Pretty good, I’d wager. Shocked? Certainly. Terrified of what’s to come? Probably. But pretty good nonetheless. The real winner last night though was, of course, Simon Cowell. Ten million phone…

I can’t quite believe how quickly this week has gone. I suppose all the running around I’ve done this week is the reason for it having flown by – well, from my perspective at least. It’s just been one thing after another quite honestly. And the piles of work on…

In fiction, it’s sometimes easy to work out if the place where the story is set is made up. Take Lord of the Rings, for example. Middle Earth came entirely from Tolkien’s mind. Okay, so it was based on Birmingham and the surrounding areas as Fiona Glass told us on…

Last month I paid out some of my hard earned to move my website from the free hosting space my home ISP provides to a paid-for host, along with a new domain (.co.uk instead of .com). One of my reasons for doing this was to get a better idea of…

I’ve not added as many words to “A Wounded Heart” since my last update as I would have liked—just over a thousand. One the other hand, The Truths We Live has grown by just under 4000 words, so that’s not too bad. Overall, that’s 5000 words in about a week…

If you’re in contact with me on Facebook, you may have noticed a few things. If you’re not… why the hell not? Facebook Friend me right now. Basically I have three pretty awesome developments on the Facebook front. First off, I now have a Facebook “Page” as opposed to just a…

The setting has been called unpleasant and grubby and people have said that the unflushed toilets, graphitised walls and piss covered floors are a turn off, but I’ve also been told that it’s hot, hot, hot and that the characters seem very real. “Public Performance” has been accepted for publication…

It’s October tenth. 10/10. One of those rare days when people from the US and Us won’t get confused over the date. I’ll never understand why the US insists on putting the month before the day. To me, it makes no sense. It’s like putting the minutes before the hours….

Over on The Grumpy Blog, I posted a piece on Ms Debbie Delamar, who claims to be the proud owner of Britain’s Biggest Fake Boobs. She’s been all over the media (or the gutter press, if you prefer) this past weekend. It wasn’t a particularly unusual post, in the sense…

The weather is horrible, it’s windy and rainy and cold and muggy and dark. But I feel quite chipper at the moment. Life feel all right. I’m excited about the upcoming release of “Charlotte’s Secret” and “Lost & Found” with Phaze. I’ve got cracking a bit more with “Chloe’s Education”…

Release day is fast approaching. 1st June. To whet your appetite, here’s an excerpt from Kissed by a Rose. Enjoy. “Oh yeah. Come on. Harder. Do me harder.” Chloe had taken to offering Adam encouragement and he had to admit that he liked it. He was almost there. Almost.The phone…

A short time ago, I sent a twitter tweet asking, “Is there a better way to open a chapter than with a dream about hot sex.” I suppose I should have expected all the replies I got which read “Actual how sex”, but in any case, here’s what I wrote….

If you follow my tweets, you’ll know that earlier this week I bought my son his first club football shirt. Not his first football shirt – I bought him an England shirt during the world cup – but his first replica shirt of a club team. That team being my…

There’s an old adage amongst writers that says you should never edit your WIP until the first draft is finished. And this makes absolute sense – it would be far too east to get caught up tweaking the early text here, changing it there and wind up never actually getting…

These came to me by e-mail earlier today. Thought I’d share. Enjoy. What’s the ideal weight for a mother-in-law? About 2.3 pounds including the urn. ***** A man is in a queue at Tescos and sees this busty blonde staring at him, he can’t believe she is staring at him….

I missed it last week as I was busy decorating the bedroom ready for my wife’s return home (yes, I am that nice a husband. Or maybe I just know what’s good for me). But #sixsunday returns to my blog today with six of the best from Lost & Found….

As some of you might or might not know, I work in a law firm and look after all the money that comes into and goes out of the office. You see some interesting things in this job. For example, today we had a client buy a property worth £1.4million…

Did you know that today it is fifty years since “The Music Died”? Yep, it’s fifty years to the day that the plane went down over Iowa taking Buddy Holley, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper with it. There was a piece on it this morning on the radio. Naturally,…

I was walking back to the car at the end of the work day yesterday, scrolling though some of the notifications on my phone when I found this… It seems that I either have a fan in a very high place, or I’m on a very dangerous watchlist. I really do…

With The Lies We Lead now out in the wild for everyone to read, I’m already being asked what’s up next from me. I’ve got a couple of projects on the go, as well as a few in the pipeline that are nothing more than ideas right now. Firstly, I’ve been…

So, we’ve had a whole weekend to digest and reflect on the first political parties leaders debate held last Thursday, and you know what, I’m worried. But not for the reason you might think. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually stated my political leanings on this blog, although I’m sure…

Monica from Happily Ever After Reviews, has written a wonderfully kind review of Eternally & Evermore. You can read it here. She awarded the book “4 Tea Cups” out of five and recommends the book to “to people that can relate with the struggles that a relationship goes through when…

Yesterday I was chatting in the LoveRomancesCafe Yahoo! group. I took part in an ‘author interview’. Here are the questions asked and my answers. Can you tell us a little about how you started writing; was it something you have always wanted to do? I think that deep down I’ve…

“Eh? What on earth could that be all about, then?” I hear you ask. Or maybe I don’t. Maybe it’s just the voices in my head brought on by the drugs I’m having to take to clear this damn blocked nose of mine – not that they are working. I’m…

I got notification today (aren’t Google alerts great?) of a second review of Eternally & Evermore in the space of a week. And this one is just as good as the last. The review site is Literary Nymphs and the reviewer is Goddess Minx. Here’s a couple of quotes from…

What day is it? Yep, I sort of lost track over the past, however long. It’s easily done when you’re out of your normal routine. It is, I believe, Thursday, which means I have three days left here in Northern France before having to brave the British motorway system again…

Come on, admit it, we all do it. Every now and then we do a Google ‘ego-search’. That is, we put our own name into Google (real or pen names) and see what turns up. For the most part, we authors should find our own websites/blogs/facebooks/twitters at the top if…

My latest novel, “A Tortured Soul”, is now available across the usual range of e-book retailers. Paul Robertson’s epic “Coming of Age” story continues in this follow-up to the novel, A Good Man. After almost a year of running from his grief on a road trip around The United States,…

I’ve taken a couple of days to reflect on this case before writing about it for the simple reason that I didn’t want this to be a reactionary piece. To summarise what has gone on here, the man who caused the horrific death of an 18 month old boy two…

Writing, for me, has never been about profit. When I started writing back at the turn of the millennium, the only way to get what you’d written read by other people was to give it away for free on the old Usenet (remember that?). The Usenet was replaced by story…

I’m am having a seriously bad day today. Traffic problems this morning meant I travelled about two and half miles, stop/start, in half an hour. Which really set me up for the day. Next, LoudTwitter has failed to ship yesterday’s twitter tweets to my blogs, which isn’t the end of…

Okay, so I enticed you in with a title that hints of lots of naughty things I did at the weekend, when actually, I didn’t do very many naughty things at all. Sue me. One thing I did do was post the teaser trailer for Kissed by a Rose to…

Here is the second part of the questions asked of Phaze authors during Monday’s Yahoo! group chat.Where do you envision your writing career in the next 2-5 years? Have you even looked that far ahead? Gee, I don’t know. If I ever finish Chloe’s Education I’d like to see that…

I had an interesting conversation on Facebook the other day, the gist of which was, “Do I need to read your books in any order? They are all part of the same series, aren’t they?” The short answer to that is Yes and No. Or rather, No and Yes but…

For once, I can say I feel no guilt what-so-ever for failing to update this blog for the past week. Last Sunday I drove from my home in Northampton, down the M1, around the M25 and along the M20, to Dover, where I got on a ferry to cross the…