It always seems like the really big news you have to sit on forever and a day!  But okay, the cat's now out of the bag: The Bad Neighbo...

Well, I've left this rather late, haven't I?  But part of the reason for that, I think, is that I hate being vague and there's ...

Once upon a time there was a novel called Funland .  It had a tough gestation, one that I documented at length in what feels like anothe...

It seems like a while since I've talked about my multifarious ongoing novels here, (or indeed about anything much besides nineties anim...

I'm pretty certain I've never put as much weight of expectation on a year as I did 2014. I mean, as the year when I gave up my ol...

And no, I don't mean the singer.  Because honestly, that would be a whole 'nother post, and if I knew how to bend aging former cele...

So, where are we?  Late October?  Only I'm writing this a few days earlier, because I'm about to go on holiday (off hiking in the L...

I've actually been working permanently as a writer for about seven and a half months now ... but I tend to discount that first month an...