I just got my first rejection letter from a New Zealand publisher. A while ago I finished a fiction manuscript that I’m pretty happy with – happy, considering it’s a first and self-taught attempt – and started shopping it round literary agents in the UK. It’s set in England and I’d love to have it […]
So I was both disturbed and fascinated by this BBC story about a new gun the US military has rolled out. Mostly fascinated, I’ll admit. I have a kind of nerdy obsession with things like this – I used to spend hours on a site run by the Federation of American Scientists, which details all […]
Pottering is the great temptation of work-from-homers and I’ve recently found a far, far too engrossing place in which to potter. A froth of green passionfruit vine has totally engulfed one of the fences at our house and I can’t stop poking my nose in it. A while back I wrote in Metro about being […]
With much appreciation to Jesse Anderson at Zoubakin Strategic Creative I now have my own website. I must say the whole process of pulling it together is very cool. You start with that paralysing anxiety that comes from having far too many options, then start whittling away ideas until the eventual product is revealed. It […]
