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My First Crit
Do you remember your first time? Was it exciting? Were you nervous? Did you just want to get...
Bombing in the reviews
An indie author often lives or dies based on their books’ ratings and reviews. Okay, maybe that...
Safeguarding Writers’ Mental Health In 2025
Writers are, by definition, people of heightened awareness and sensitivity. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t – couldn’t –...
My Resolution (Or a List of Books)
As the old year comes to a close, I think about things I am grateful for and about...
WTF, Will! sonnets + summary
My reading of The Complete Works of Shakespeare was almost at an end. The book (only a paperback)...
Let it snow!
I looked everywhere but I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t in the jumble of decorations packed away from...
WTF, Will! The poems 1 – 5
Well, I'd just read all of Shakespeare's plays and I was feeling extremely showy-offy. And yes, I'd been...
Don’t Call On Me
Cold winds blow through city streets as winter’s grip takes hold and grey souls in downbeat worlds retreat...
WTF, Will! parts 36 – 37
Unbelievably, after nearly six months, I had almost come to the end of the complete works of Shakespeare....
The Unexpected Pantomime
Deep in tribal territory in Jharkhand, India, three schools — one by a road, one in a forest,...
WTF, Will! parts 33 – 35
My book was looking ragged and my Kirk and Spock bookmarks were bent. But I was determined to...
Christmas Eve in the Graveyard
Four-year-old Hugh wanted to be a villain. This puzzled my son Jack. If they played Star Wars, it...
WTF, Will! parts – 30 – 32
By now Shakespeare was all Henried out, so he turned to the ancient world to inspire his next...
A Christmas Reflection
If you read my Christmas Snippets post, you'll be aware that I suffered a psychotic episode in...
WTF, Will! parts 27 – 29
This part of the book had the men taking centre stage. Shakespeare had hit his stride. At least,...
After 65 Decembers
In August, he smiled at the memories of 65 Decembers, and put away his razor. . The ruddy...
WTF, Will! parts 24 – 26
My paperback version of The Complete Works of Shakespeare was starting to look properly shabby. I'd bent the...
Christmas Snippets
Port and Lemon and Dirty Jokes My nan was the type of woman who couldn’t walk to the...
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