Sad news today that one of the conjoined twins born to an eighteen year old at Great Ormond St late last month has died. The twins were called Hope and Faith, and ironically it is Hope that has died. I hope that Faith will continue to get stronger and survive….

So, as the song says, “another week over. And a new one just begun.” Okay, so John Lennon actually wrote “year” and not “week” and the week isn’t quite over yet nor has a new one quite begun, but you get the idea. My last blog post was almost a…

I’m having all sorts of problems with my Googlemail and blogger accounts just now. They started over the weekend and have now come to the point that I can’t post entries on Blogger, and can’t read/write/delete/do any-bloody-thing at all with google mail. I’ve even switched back to the ‘simple’ HTML…

I define myself as an author of Erotic Romance and Erotic Short Stories. Bu I know full well that some of a more puritanical nature would define me as a Pornographer. Now, I’m fine with that, after all these are just labels and they are, at the end of the…

Please welcome today’s guest, Rebecca Savage. ***** An avid reader can become a prolific writer. Such is the case with me. I started out in my teens reading Louis L’Amour. I have one hundred ninety of his paperbacks and fifteen of his books bound in leather. I read them all,…

Fellow British author Barbara Elsborg recently beta-read Kissed for a Rose for me and had some very nice things to say about it. Barbara has been published by Ellora’s Cave and Loose Id with titles such as “Anna in the Middle” and “Something about Polly”. You can find out more…

Last week, The Labour Party released a secretly recorded tape of a Government Minister, Lord Freud, making ill-advised comments about disabled people and the minimum wage. Now, it’s clear this was a cynical attempt by Labour to make the minister and the Government look bad – part of Labour’s election…

Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated. I know it’s been a while since the blog has been updated, but truth is that I’ve been super, super busy both at work and at home. Something had to take a back seat and it was the blog. Normal service may be resumed soon,…

It’s been a long, hard week at work. Long, hard and tiring. I’m hoping next week will be a bit easier, but I doubt it. Of course, I haven’t made things easy on myself, staying up late to write. I know I said recently that I was going to rewrite…

Soemthing a little different. A poem that was sent to me today that i thought you all might enjoy.   Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me TitsBy Pam Ayres   Oh, I wish I’d looked after me dear old knockers, Not flashed them to boys behind the school lockers,…

I’ve got dates for my upcoming releases! Yay. First up, Kissed by a Rose, is set for a print release on Monday 29th March. That’s just four weeks away. You can, of course, still pick up a digital edition if you can’t wait. Just follow the links on the Kissed…

Yesterday, at around 3 in the afternoon, by a curious quirk of fate, I had three friend requests from three attractive looking young ladies, two blondes and a brunette, all of whom were named Kayla, although one of them spelt it differently. As you do, I had a quick look…

Okay, so, according to the Chancellor, the way that Britain is going to get through the recession is by asking the public, who he readily admits have far too much personal debt in the form of mortgages, unsecured loans and credit cards, to go out to the shops and spend…

Not surprisingly, today’s six sentences come from Eternally & Evermore. Why not surprisingly? Because release day is getting closer, that’s why. Here’s one of the more dramatic scenes to whet your appetite. “Keys,” Will said as they approached the car. “William, you’re scaring me.” “Keys!” She handed them over and…

My last post was just about two weeks ago—and boy how the world has changed since then, huh? A Global Pandemic is spreading across countries like… well, like a virus. Which is exactly what it is. Corona Virus—or COVID-19 as it’s been officially designated—is wreaking havoc with whole countries being…

I’m still trying to get back into the routine of blogging regularly—and of posting to my Facebook page regularly, for whatever that is worth with the piss poor way Facebook handles posts on Pages—but it takes some effort to get back into the swing of it properly. One of the…

I saw this, frankly, brilliant meme on twitter yesterday. it pretty much sums up what the next four months are going to be like for us Brits. I feel really quite depressed about the following sentence. I’m not looking forward to this election campaign one little bit. This how I…

Patricia Maia (Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon) has written a really, really good review of A Good Man. You can read it for yourself here. But I’d like to quote some of it if I may. Very well written, very concise, full of various details that makes you live the story as…

We set out this morning bright and early at quarter past eight expecting a nice easy drive down the M1, round the M25 and along the M20 to Dover. We had meant to leave dead on eight, but that’s besides the point. And a nice easy drive is pretty much…

Here’s a bunch of jokes a friend sent me today. They made me smile and I thought you might enjoy them. An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set…

Okay, as promised yesterday, here’s something a little bit different. Today, I’m posting the titles of the first ten of the twenty-nine chapters of A Tortured Soul. Make of them what you will. Chapter 1 : Home Chapter 2 : How Could You? Chapter 3: Nothing to Lose Chapter 4…

Okay, so for the past few days I’ve been in a really, really shitty mood. I mean, really shitty. I’ve been the sort of miserable arsehole that even I’d like to punch. And here’s the thing, I’ve no idea why. Really – no idea at all. Mrs Nobbs keeps asking,…

Yesterday I spoke about my desire to ramp up this blog to something like it was back on blogger. To that end, I have imported all my old blogger posts into this site and have set myself the task of weeding out the bad ones, keeping the not-so-bad ones and…

The MySpace version of this blog now has over 120 subscribers and the Blogger version also get a consistent number of hits. I just wanted to take a few words to thank all of you who read it. Hopefully you find it a little entertaining and it brightens up your…

There’s an old saying that goes, “Never judge a book by its cover.” Thing is, a lot of people do. A book’s cover is so often thing that draws a reader’s attention. Certainly, in the world of paper books on the shelves in book stores and supermarkets, the cover is the…

I’ve been using Googlemail and the message system at myspace for a while now and something just struck me. They scan the contents of the messages to place ‘appropriate’ adverts. And it’s unnerving sometimes how accurate they are to what you’re talking about. Does anyone else find this disconerting? Or…

I’ve been off work since Thursday. Northing serious –  I haven’t been ill or anything. I actually took Thursday and Friday off to work on the allotment, but ended up looking after Jr who’s the one that’s been under the weather. Same again today. He’s better now, so he’ll be…

I know I haven’t been around this week, and there are reasons for that I might explain later, but I’m back for Six Sentence Sunday. My six this week again come from my impending print release, Kissed by a Rose, which you can get in digital formats now if you…

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…

Sometimes I really do wonder just what the hell is going on in Britain. The Daily Mail (that respected source of common sense and balanced reporting – not) has a headline today claiming the end of fatherhood as we know it. It seems that a Bill is before parliament which…

It was a busy week last week, as you can probably tell from my lack of any blog posts. It’s a shame because there was a lot I wanted to talk about last week, most obviously the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time panel programme….

I was chatting with my PA, Ashley, yesterday (still feels weird referring to her that way. She’s my friend and she helps me out. PA sounds far too ‘official’ for my liking. I’m not important enough to need a PA). She had just finished reading Kissed by a Rose and…

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….

So, here’s the thing, a couple of months ago, progress on A Tortured Soul ground to a halt. Why? Simple, I knew I had a really, really, tough part of the story to write. But, here’s the good news, that really tough bit is now written. Yay for me. Of…

I’ve had the first review through for “Charlotte’s Secret” (available from Phaze on April 21), and the book has received 4 angels from Fallen angel reviews. The reviewer, Dawnie, had this to say… “I enjoyed the twist and turns of Charlotte’s Secret. I found the characters to be very believable…

In what little spare time I’ve had this year I’ve been working hard on the second book of the Tutelam Venit Series, tentatively sub-titled “A Tortured Soul”. I always thought this would be a more difficult book to write that the first, simply because I’m walking a fine line between making you feel sympathetic to the…

Am I offended by the new Gillette advert? No. THE BEST A MAN CAN GET? Does it really bother me all that much? No. So why write about it? Well, everyone else seems to have an opinion on it, so why not. I saw it on twitter last night, but…

It’s been over two years since I last published anything. That was The Lies We Lead. It’s been over three years since I released the second book in the Paul Robertson Saga, A Tortured Soul. So what have I been doing in the meantime, when’s my next book going to…

Just a quickie. Simon Cowell’s X-Factor is back and the live shows are underway. This year we have the worst act to go through to the live shows in the history of live television, ever. But damn, they are funny. The X-factor twins. Or is it the X-files twins. John…

I have, today, for the first time, uploaded a video to YouTube. It’s a bit silly really, but I videoed my journey to work on my Phone. now, I know that it’s sounds dangerous holding the camera steady while driving, but actually, I used Blu-tac to stick the phone to…

This morning, on the School Run, I had the music on my phone playing on shuffle through my car stereo via Bluetooth rather than listening to the radio and Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen Spirit” came on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg As the intro faded into the angst-ridden first verse I said to my…

I figured it was time I started scheduling some posts with excerpts from some of the books I’ve got up on Amazon. I’m going to start with the short stories that are available on Kindle Unlimited, because there are already excerpts from my longer novels available on this website. So…

Oh Dear. Back on 13th March, I got notice from Google that Sophie’s Tutor was being removed from the Play bookstore for violation of content policies. Well, at least they let me know, which is more than some companies do. The e-mail contained the following quote… Please note that we…

Going back to Swansea this weekend left me with some very mixed feelings. Yeah, Swansea was where Mrs Nobbs and I met and fell in love so it was special to go back together with Junior and see all the places we remembered from those days (even if most of…

I’ve written a guest blog at the “Rule of Three” blog. As have my good friends Cassie Exline and Savannah Chase. Why not check it out?