I used to stand in bookshops pt 3
In the last episode… I had just seen my book for the […]
Category: Writing and publishing
The Winter Road. The other road.
My second novel is called The Winter Road and it’s out in […]
Newsletter #1
Here’s the contents of the first newsletter I sent out to my […]
Hiding the ventriloquist*
“My name’s Gant and I’m sorry for my poor writing.” So begins […]
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I used to stand in bookshops pt 2
I was gearing up for March 17th, when I’d finally see my […]
They followed their mercenary calling…*
The poem ‘Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries’ by AE Housman** is […]
How Sláine and a handful of mushrooms defined the magic of Snakewood*
My debut fantasy novel Snakewood, due out in March, is the realization […]
I used to stand in bookshops…
…as a teenager, then a man in my twenties and thirties and […]
The Reader’s Gift
As someone learning the craft of writing, and leaving it rather late […]
In the land of the blind, could the literary agent be king?
Writers have a problem. It’s harder than it ever was to get […]
Making my own words work
I talked in my last blog-post about the pleasure I get from […]
The deliciousness of hard-working prose
What would you say constitutes great writing? For a practising writer like […]
Show don’t tell
I spend some time on an internet writing forum. There have been […]
Worldbuilding part 2: It’s a kind of magic
This blog post gives an overview of my very physical take on […]
Worldbuilding part 1 – how prevailing winds shape history’s winners and losers
How to create a convincing fantasy world. That’s the question I’m sure […]
Do readers care about grammar?
“Surely if incredibly high sales of authors who don’t close edit their […]
The final full stop.
The final sentence of Snakewood approached, already in my head, and I’m […]