I can’t remember the last time I wrote a short story. For (literally) decades I’ve been attempting to write novels, but back in olden times I wrote nothing but short stories. On Friday or Saturday evenings I used to fire up my green-screen Amstrad PCW 8256, bought with savings and a bursary from my first… Read More
Month: May 2013
12-year-old Lettie Peppercorn lives in an inn on stilts in the land of Albion; her best friends are a pigeon and the wind that whistles through the gaps in the walls; her mother disappeared years ago leaving behind only a cryptic note; and her father is a drinker and a gambler who leaves her in… Read More
The next phase
This week I decided what my next project is going to be. After finishing The Chimney Rabbit and the Underground Mice, I had several options. I could have written the third book in the series, I could have written something completely unrelated, or (and this is what I’ve decided on) I could write a related… Read More
Whistle while you work
Earlier this evening, I booked tickets for a performance by the Philharmonia orchestra here in Leicester in June 2014 – normally I wouldn’t book anything so far in advance, but the good tickets seemed to be selling pretty quickly already, and my other half has recently become a huge Shostakovich fan, so the chance to… Read More