Life, Slightly: unboxing
My first time seeing real-life paperbacks of my third novel Life, Slightly! Out in September 2022.
Why going back to ‘how it was before Covid’ is a terrible idea
While prepping a reading from my latest novel Life, Slightly, I realised how much the world has changed in the past couple of years – and how we shouldn’t be harking after all the things in the ‘old’ world at all!
Life, Slightly – a reading
A short reading from the opening of my third novel Life, Slightly.
Sliding doors and ‘what if’ moments
About 5 years back, I was offered the opportunity to write a Doctor Who story featuring Bernice Summerfield. I’m a massive, massive fan, so this should have been a no-brainer. I said no.
‘Is that character based on me?’
I was walking my dog early this morning and she started playing with another dog. My heart froze as the other dog walker looked at me smiling and said: ‘we’re walking the same way, we can have a natter as they play.’ I’m generally bad at small...
World Mental Health Day – some thoughts
It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay… so I don’t know who needs to hear this, but give yourself a break, you’re doing brilliantly.
Uboxing video: new covers
In preparation for my third novel ‘Life, Slightly’, the covers of my first two books Beat The Rain and The Pursuit of Ordinary have been revised so they all work together. This is the first time I’ve seen them in the...
Reading, Beat The Rain
An excerpt from the interludes of Beat The Rain where an as-yet-unnamed character muses on their life and imminent death. There are probably happier or funnier excerpts I could have chosen…