I used to be intrepid. I used to hitchhike, backpack, stay with strange people in strange countries. I was influenced in this by a friend I met as a teenager who was convinced that travelling was the only point in life, that staying still and settling down...
I have been too busy to blog much, and won’t be doing much of it now, except that I wanted to draw your attention to a great entry posted by my friend Tony Eaton about writing for children and young adults. I don’t often mention to people that I write books, because...
Today I had a day off work, and was possessed of a mad cleaning frenzy (they don’t come around very often, so I like to take advantage), focused almost entirely on books. Our house is small, and so the bulk of our books are kept in the shed, in the hope that one day...
Like many of my female friends, I’ve been trying to not-hear the details of what’s been going on re certain rugby league events – and not succeeding. I am horrified by the way fans will automatically take the side of the players, that they have had all the media...
I am (and will be) putting in some pretty extensive hours in the dayjob during the week, and madly editing Chess Nuts on weekends, so I haven’t got much time for reading. However, on my bedside pile at the moment I have a couple of compelling books which appear...
