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Favourite character answers

Here are all the responses to the favourite character competition. I really enjoyed reading them and as I said found […]

Q & A in print

The Lamia Witch

The Lamia Witch 9/3/2019 Brenda Gountis sent me this poem. Inspired by “The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane” (Spooks […]

10 questions with Joseph Delaney

Nicola from BBC Radio Lancashire ( she has interviewed me a couple of times ) has launched a book club […]

July Blog Writing ‘Wulf Two’

I have just finished another draft of ‘Wulf Two’ and it has gone off to my editor. Once again, it […]

Questions from instagram answered

Winning Questions

Here are the questions that I selected, with difficulty, to receive a prize. Thank you to everyone that responded, they […]

Competition Questions and Answers

Q. Tom, Alice and Grimalkin are they inspired by real people or are they totally invented ? Alice and Grimalkin […]

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 […]

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!