The Yeovil Literary Prize
Being shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize is a true honour for me. The competition was established by the Yeovil Community Arts...
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Character Evidence
Writing convincing characters is one of the hardest things to do in any novel. It doesn’t matter what book genre it is; a character must...
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”― Ernest Hemingway
18th June 2024. I had forgotten how hard it was to write. The first drafts of the new book - A Remembrance of Death were quickly...
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The Developmental Editor - Hatchet man or Saviour
About a year ago, I wrote a blog saying that I had finished the first draft of my second novel, "A Remembrance of Death", and hoped to...
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Where There's A Will
Recently, I received a book review from the Online Book Club where the reviewer wrote that they wanted to know more about some of the...
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The Red Pen
"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh...
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A Remembrance of Death
Memento Mori (Update) I wrote a blog just after Christmas about two questions. First, how were book sales going and the second, whether...
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Everyone's a Winner
OK! It's been another great week for 'Of All Faiths & None' This week the winners of the Outstanding Creator Awards were published, and I...
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Having the Last Word
The Historical Novel Society was founded in the UK in 1997. At first it was conceived of as something of a campaigning society, because...
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Sisters of Mercy
It was not only the soldiers in the frontline and in the trenches that were killed in the First World War. It is estimated that 1,500...
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The Book Launch Party
A small but perfectly formed bookshop! Hidden in Angel Courtyard Lymington is the wonderful new bookshop called 'The Imaginarium'. It...
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The Order of the White Feather
One thing that nearly all of the American reviewers have focused on is the handing over of a white feather to young men in World War 1. ...
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Of All Faiths & None - The Paperback
The paperback version of the novel is finally on sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones and all good bookshops. It can also be...
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Rave on John Donne
I was recently asked a question about Lady Emily Lutyens' attraction to theosophy and her devotion to Krishnamurti. Prior to writing my...
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Publish And Be Damned
Everyone dreams that they can write a novel. However, even when the novel is completed the author then has to face the difficulties of...
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Going Under Cover
Jacquelynn Kennedy, the Reedsy reviewer, said that the first thing that attracted her to 'Of All Faiths & None' was the cover. The final...
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Of All Faiths & None - the e.Book
On Sale Today I am so pleased to tell everyone that the eBook version of my debut novel is now on sale. A paperback version will be...
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Elementary My Dear
Last Sunday I visited All Saints Churchyard in the small village of Minstead in the New Forest, where you can see the grave of Arthur...
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The Battle of the Somme
On 1 July 2016 the Battle of the Somme commenced and lasted 141 days. Over three million men fought in the battle and one million men...
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Drogo Revisited
Yesterday I returned to Castle Drogo on Dartmoor, the place that inspired my novel. In my last two blogs I explained two of the reasons...
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