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Are You a Wifi Hog

Every so often a creative freelancer just has to get out of the house. Usually to get in some caffeine. We've become a modern day menace, apparently. Spreading our laptops and smartphones across tables and sofa, turning our local Starbucks or Costa into an office....

The Key to Creativity

#GoCreative. I'm a bit sceptical about brain training and #creativity. Brain training works best in getting you used to jumping through particular mental hoops and improving your ability to do a specific brain task. But creative thinking is different. The brainwaves...

World Book Day Offer

Just a quick note to say if you are thinking of reading Before The Fall, then today's the day to do it.   To celebrate World Book Day, and to say thank you to you as a blog subscriber, and to other supporters, I'm making the book available free on Amazon Kindle all...

New Novel Out

Sorry for the delay…. I got a little waylaid by all the activity around the Alliance of Independent Authors but it's here!  Now available on Kindle — Before The Fall. Thank you for your patience! This book is the sequel to After The Rising, but it's a...

Launching New Novel

I've just got the jacket for ‘Before The Fall' (the sequel to After The Rising) over from the designer, the rather wonderful Andrew Brown at Design For Writers. I couldn't wait to show it to you. Andrew and I are hoping you'll like it as much as we do.  I reckon...

Staying in Start-Up

So the first week of January is over. Are the new year's creative intentions beginning to flag? It's understandable. Finishing a task is an event. An outcome. A visible achievement. But starting is just starting. Take running a marathon or publishing a book. Crossing...