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 …
Read MoreMan in the Bath 2
Just thought I’d add an interesting little anecdote about this slightly spruced up version of my Man in the Bath novel (originally entitled ‘Cult Administrator’, which gives you a far more blatant idea of the subject). When I was updating, I included a slightly less …
Read MoreRupert books – Mary Tourtel
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 …
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