Reading is for fun
The team that brought you Four books that have raised thousands of dollars, pound or euro for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders have a new project. Beneath Healing Skies And are seeking contributors Adventures Without Clothes featured stories by four new writers … will your first published story be in this anthology? Drop us a…
Blind Date “I am going to set you up with a date with Lah” My friend announced picking up the mobile phone that had remained silent on the table between us. We had been talking about my disastrous blind date the night before. The latest in a long string of mismatched potential partners the computer…
This story started as a joke about a name confused in translation and turned into something about mental health issues. Hence, the title “A Breaking Wave.” It is part of a quote mentioned to the leading female protagonist. It is a light romance, as per usual, nothing I wouldn’t have wanted my mum to have…
Situation I have a number of books out on Amazon. Exclusively on Amazon, forsaking potential sales via other outlets to take advantage of Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited raised about 30% of my earnings until the recent crash in reported Amazon stats. Currently it stands at 17% for this month. I had also been involved…
The Last Day of June is approaching fast … By that, I mean the 30th day of the sixth month of the year. To celebrate I have heavily discounted the e-book AND paperback of the book with the same title!-In the UK that means the Kindle edition is at 99p and the real book is…
It has been a while since I last posted on this page, for that I apologise. Unlike many politicians, I am not going to say ‘but’ rather I wish I had posted more often. I have been busy writing though. I have published three new novellas and a short story. The short story, “Melissa. More…
I bought myself a new electric bike. We live on a hill, a long and in places steep hill, about a kilometre from the nearest bar (and the boulangerie). Being slightly eco, I prefer not to drive that short distance and go by bike, unless it is raining. Yes, I know a fairweather eco-warrior! Proud…
What is a writer supposed to do with bits of story, backstory and such like left over after publication? Deliberately Left Over Story A few years back I was working on what turned into “The Uncovered Policeman; Made For TV” when I discovered a chunk of the story was going in a different direction to…
Several people have asked about the setting for many of the Uncovered Policeman stories, L’Abeille Nue. It is entirely fictitious. The location as described in the book “Goodbye Blues.” The stream, the orchard, the buildings and the pool exist only in my imagination now that I have lost the sketch map I made when I…
June 2020 will see me in print in three different places! 1 Dark London Dark London is a two volume anthology of stories drawing on the darker side of the Capital’s streets and the people that fill them. My story that lurks between the covers of Volume 1, hidden between stories by Jess Popplewell and…
