The Scribbling Sea Serpent

  Sara Crowe’s debut YA novel, Bone Jack, is one I have been eagerly awaiting for some time, and suffice to say it’s lived up to everyth...

Who would have thought that I would find myself taking part in an author event at Sand Sculpture Festival, but last weeken...

This is Mimsy. Whenever I settle down to write it isn’t long before she appears beside me, looking up at me and miaowing. Then she jumps...

Writing can be a very lonely business and sooner or later we need to reach out and find other like-minded people. We need to network. As we...

As the waters start to recede Looking out across the levels Gateway to nowhere Along the River Parrett

There’s a new meme doing the rounds and this is it. I was tagged by Natasha Ngan , author of the fabulous The Elites, and challenged to answ...

I’ve written and critiqued a fair number of short stories in my time and one of the things that is notoriously difficult to get right is the...