I’m back. Haven’t been anywhere special, but have moved from my lovely Loch Lomond down to Fandabby Brighton, couple of years ago now....

Reading Emma Darwin’s book, This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin, and suddenly seeing my way of working in Chapter 3, which made me...

Expectations of firm dates, beginnings, arriving on time – tick-tock, in full grasp of the season. We like bright and springly....

The book through the door today was Shanta Acharya’s Imagine, and my first browse through, it is fab. I’ve read quite a bit of her new...

Just when I think I can get on with a new novel, get the whole first draft done before the end of the year, I fall back under poetry’s...

I slip inside your hotel with a bag. It's just me but I’m stuffed with stowaways and guilt. Your advert: Imaginary Friends Stay Free. I'm...

In my small space sharp shadows slant against the summer evening reminding us that Scotland is so green because of the pesky rain. All...

I am two people. Two whole other characters live here but they’re still kind of abstract so I can’t say I know them well – hardly at...

Three months I’ve had this pain in my back; the soft tissue inside my right side feels swollen, is sore when I lay back against cushions...

I’m splashing about in Kindle Direct Publishing, making a mess, trying to keep it light and dismissing stress – don’t think I’ve used any...