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April Blog

I hope all of you are coping out there – spending most of your time indoors isn’t always much fun. […]

First chapter Brother Wulf

Prologue I could no longer see my bedroom ceiling. The room had suddenly grown dark, as if a thick blanket […]

Second reading of Brother Wulf

How do you get published ?

That is the question that I am frequently asked via the website and at school events. The answer is ‘with […]

February Blog

February 2020. I’m looking forward to the publication of ‘Brother Wulf’ on April 16, this year. It is really great […]

Joseph reading from Brother Wulf

Fan fiction from Nicholas Mazzoni

Aberrations The Witch’s Warning

Book 2

Joseph Delaney Reading From Aberrations

The Beast Awakens

“They heard shouting, and cries of fear. Crafty looked down the slope and realised what had happened to cause so […]

Commodore 64

My ‘Commodore 64’ and ‘Arena 13’. ‘Arena 13’ started with my Commodore 64 computer and a language called ‘FORTH’. The […]

Seven Songs for a Seventh Son

Spooks Playlist Recently I suggested a list of songs that an ARENA 13 combatant might listen to whilst preparing to […]

If you want to be a writer, keep a notebook. You need to jot down every idea for a story that comes into your head. Don’t think to censor your ideas either! The idea is new and you are too close to it to judge its value. Ten years later it may strike you in a totally different way. I estimate that out of every thirty ideas I jotted down into my notebooks, twenty-nine proved to be worthless. The thirtieth had the potential to be developed into a novel or short story. The bad news was that quite often I found out that somebody had written something similar already!