On not waiting: or, a publisher wants my book!

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

Slaughter the darlings with a blunt pen-knife

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

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

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

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

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

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

I knew Victorian men wore collapsible top-hats to the opera, but I never cottoned on to the fact…

The Victorians: sentimental and mawkish? Or inventors of the stiff upper lip? Lots of men nowadays feel they…

Don’t you love charity shops for books? All sorts of unexpected treasures and out-of-print gems – and all costing…

Today I went to the dentist, which means afterwards I get to buy books. The moment I saw the spine…

I’ve been writing stories most of my life, starting with a pastiche of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe…