On ignoring writing advice

Write every day. Write when you can. Just write. Plan first. It’s so contradictory. Who should you listen … More

Word-counts. Meh

I get that for some people, word-counts are a Jedi mind trick. They’re a way of disciplining yourself to write … More

Part One was all about prep. Here’s how I laugh in the face of procrastination when I’m doing … More

A couple of people have asked me recently how I maintain momentum when writing a novel. How to keep going? … More

Regular readers will remember me trilling recently about the fact that MLR Press is going to publish a novella I’ve … More

Some of you may remember that three months ago I sent my historical, fantasy m/m romance off to a publisher … More

I’ve now heard three different people saying how silly it is to ‘kill your darlings’ when you’re writing. “Why would … More

Do you have a half-finished manuscript saved in the bowels of your computer? Do you dream of starting/finishing … More

I used to read whatever took my fancy: a history of witchcraft, a novel about a Japanese student’s … More

It’s done. Salt Magic, Skin Magic – my m/m fantasy romance set in Yorkshire in 1851 – is finished and … More

Before Hogwarts, before Ursula Le Guin’s school for wizards on Roke, did you know that a real academy that taught … More

Recently I read Christina E. Pilz’s historical m/m romance Fagin’s Boy in which a now grown-up Oliver Twist … More