A slightly different style of influence here. As I’m blogging about my influences, I can’t do anything other than include and have happy thoughts when looking at the ‘Rupert books’. Sitting on my mum’s knee, having these read to me in the early seventies was …
Read MoreIt’s (A)live!
So here it is, the official launch of the website today. It’s been a long time coming I know, but I needed to line my ducks up, as the sayting goes, so everything was in the right order. As of today, for a few months, …
Read MoreFundamentals – Ian Duhig
I first came across ‘Fundamentals‘ in the early nineties and it was a bit of a revelation to me. I was a real poetry snob at the time, and I don’t think I really knew anything post-1970, assuming it was all bollocks. But I loved …
Read MoreMan in the Bath
I’d already written one novel in the 1990’s, based around six friends in Manchester (called Love Isn’t) but rather than editing and publishing, I moved on to other things, and in the middle of 2005 had developed the routine, much as the character in my …
Read MoreCountdown to Launch
All going well here, as we get closer to official launch of the website. Keep your eyes on the countdown for that on the front page. Hopefully you’ve managed to have a look around and found some things of interest by now. Along with the …
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