Birmingham RNA Writers Day
Writing can be a lonely endeavour, so it’s great that there’s ways for us to meet up. There’s local groups, or there’s associations and ...
Category: Writing
Interview: Verity Holloway and “Beauty Secrets of the Martyrs”
I was on holiday in Kefalonia as a child when I saw my first dead body: the rather wrinkly 16th century St. Gerasimus. He wasn’t on view for tourists, onl...
You don’t need a typewriter to tell a story
It was the mid-80s: Cliff Richard was on telly, our video player was the size of a small family car, my mum had a perm. My dad’s fondness for pictures of ...
Lament for an Unavailable Spy
At some point, Poison Panic will be available on Amazon. How very exciting. Because I had a couple of minutes in which my brain demanded something to do and bec...
My first blog post
Just last week, I was giving a talk about ‘Social media for authors’ at Book to the Future – the University of Birmingham’s literature f...