So, after the overwhelming (ahem) response to my offer of a series of blogposts on the writing process, I came to two conclusions. First, on reflection, there’s hundreds of those buggers out there, and while my insights and truthful and thrilling journey might be unique, …
Read MoreBluebird – Charles Bukowski
A bit of an unusual one here, I’m going to recomment you follow a link and listen and watch a reading of Bluebird, as this is a work best enjoyed performed I think, like much of Bukowski’s. You can get a huge amount from it …
Read MoreHow to write and publish a book
So, a few people have asked me what my blog is about, and beyond “writing” it’s a challenge to describe, but posts fall into four basic categories; news and releases, influences on my writing/recommendations, influences on me/my thoughts, and the writing process. So I had …
Read MoreAuthor Page
You can now find my author page on Amazon, and I’m so proud (pats self on the head) so do keep an eye out for new things there. As my first book is live now, I thought I’d let you know a little secret. Man …
Read MoreThe Trigan Empire – Don Lawrence (Art) Mike Butterworth (story)
Just a short ‘recommends’ today. I know some purists might not think of graphic novels as ‘art’, but they inspire and take you to a different world, and the best will remain classics forever. This wonderful drawn series (recently republished in anthology form) originally appeared …
Read MorePointless Diversity
See what I did there? I hold my hands up to using a sneaky attention-grabbing title but don’t worry, it isn’t actually misleading. Much. While this post doesn’t make my separate influences webpage as it hasn’t impacted my own writing specifically, my thoughts today are …
Read MoreMan in the Bath – Launch Day!
Well it’s finally here, after many months of work (and technically, this book began in 2007!) Man in the Bath is available from Amazon from today, free to download for he next five days! Click here to go to the download page. Please do download …
Read MoreV for Vendetta (1995)
As I talked about it in another post, I really should upload my thoughts on this film. With an amazing and at time surprising cast (I never expected Stephen Fry or Eddie Marsan) this is both a classic and almost timeless dystopian fable. The mask …
Read MoreMarch update 2
Told you things will move quickly! Only a sample of Man in the Bath on the free fiction pages now, but this is because it will be available on Amazon from Wednesday. Despite what it says there, once I get the hang of the interface …
Read MoreMarch update1
So, exciting times at Planet Kit, and it’s been a really busy few weeks since launch. I’ll be posting a few pieces over the coming couple of weeks for all you budding writers (and just those interested) about what I’ve been going through. In short …
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