Thoughts

Walking in the great outdoors, or simply navigating my own thoughts. Not everything can be a book, but everything can be written about.

Back in the Swing of Things

I took a bit of a writing break after getting The Vile Realm onto Amazon. 2020 was a tough year for pretty much everyone and, for my...

Somehow, I have managed to finish and publish The Vile Realm in 2020! The Vile Realm is a direct sequel to Grim Work. The idea for the...

Meet Marigold, Kostya, and Aveline. You may well have met Marigold before, but he's no longer quite the same after Grim Work... Character...

It finally happened. After months of remaining with five miles of home, COVID-19's grip on Scotland finally fell low enough that a wider...

I'm finally getting to the point where The Vile Realm is starting to feel like a finished product. I'm reading through chapters and...

Between editing chapters of The Vile Realm (9 of 23 done in draft four), I'm drawn to adding more images to the book. Certainly, The Vile...

Marigold rolled his shoulders, working out the kinks as they unleashed echoing snaps over the quiet inn. “Your bear’s a big one, Bly,” he...

"...my writing is doing pretty well out of all of this!"

2020 itself has, so far, been a bit... bob. "Bob" means poo, by the way. Usually these early months of the year are when I get most of...

Being a poor writer that made a whopping £12.76 from his books in the last year (HMRC took most of that, by the way), it has become...