AN UPDATE:
Hi! I’ve been out of touch for a while. Nothing sinister, it was only Life getting in the way, a succession of events that have kept me away from my keyboard. Now back in England permanently, we have much to get on with. I am delighted to tell you that I have a new publisher. We…
Read MoreHow kISmet was conceived
My new novel kISmet has just been launched. At last! How long does it take to write a complete novel? By ‘complete’ I mean a manuscript of conventional length — between seventy and eighty-five thousand words. From conception of the plot through to the finished work, it can take years. In the case of kISmet,…
Read MoreYou Love Reading? Help the Author!
If You Love Reading, Then Help The Author Last month one of my favourite people passed away. He was someone I could count on to give me real, honest feedback on my work. I used to ask him to be brutal in his assessments, if he felt it necessary. He was never brutal, just patient,…
Read MoreHow to Put Free Ebooks on Your Amazon Kindle
Follow these easy instructions to put free ebooks on your Amazon Kindle Email The easiest way to put free ebooks on your Amazon Kindle is to do it via email. To get your Kindle’s email address, go to www.amazon.com/myk using your PC’s Web browser. Tap on “Your Devices,” then choose the relevant Kindle from the…
Read MoreYes, you can write that novel.
Is there a book in you, waiting to be written? Have you ever thought that you ought to give it a try? Well, why not? That’s why the title of this blog is “Just Do It.” I was in my seventies when I wrote my first novel. Yes, really! And now my fourth is nearly…
Read MoreThe eBook Version of My Thriller PAYBACK
The ebook version of my thriller PAYBACK is on a price-drop promotion for a short time and has been re-launched in paperback. Check it out on the Books page.
Read MoreThe Elixir Of Youth
Jimmy Belcher held the rodent up and looked him in the beady eye. “Well, Homer, I reckon we’re going to make the cover of TIME magazine.” The creature blinked. Is there, Jimmy pondered, a parallel universe in which rats use humans for experiments? He’d actually become quite fond of the little creatures. Some of them,…
Read More“Arkwright's” In France
Tucked away down a side alley in a sleepy rural town nearby is a small hardware emporium of the old-fashioned kind. Stock is displayed apparently randomly from floor to ceiling, with garden implements, tools, pots and pans and all manner of domestic paraphernalia jostling for space on the ancient wooden shelves. If you are British…
Read MoreThe Visitor
A few months ago on a bright, sunny but chilly Sunday morning, we had a visitor. Outside the glass patio doors that lead from our dining kitchen to the garden, there is a small area of wooden decking. And on that morning on the decking, we had a visitor, a wild dog fox. It seems that in…
Read MoreThe Awful Truth
In 1937, master tailor Isaac Bartelewski left his home in the Sudetenland and settled with his wife and son in London, where he soon established a reputation as the best bespoke tailor in the Mile End Road. Isaac worked long hours but every morning he took a tea break in Jacko’s tearoom. In those days…
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