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Under an umbrella
"The temperature's rising, it isn't surprising..."
Jun 19
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There is poetry in everything...
...even a deckchair
Jun 17
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The Big Frog Theory - 7
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
Jun 14
The greatest practical joke of them all?
Is it daft to expect that one day we'll have an experience exactly like Bobby Ewing's in the shower? [A post from June 2025 revisited.]
Jun 10
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How was it for you?
Or a week in retrospect.
Jun 7
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Recent Posts; Individually themed sections below
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The Big Frog Theory - 6
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
Jun 7
You don't have a vice?
Who are you kidding?! (A post from 4th June 2025 revisited.)
Jun 4
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Fact or fiction?
Or fact and fiction...
Jun 4
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The Big Frog Theory - 5
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
May 31
Mini book reviews
Since February 2017 I have been writing mini book reviews whenever I finish (or fail to finish) reading a book...
May 30
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When is a book truly finished?
If we think it's when we type 'THE END' then we're kidding ourselves. (And at the end of this article, a poem...)
May 28
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Writing until the light goes out
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2023 Interview on "Between Authors Podcast"
My discussion with Adrian Lopez
Interview with 'Books & Beverages'
"This Writing Life"
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Under an umbrella
"The temperature's rising, it isn't surprising..."
Jun 19
1
1
The greatest practical joke of them all?
Is it daft to expect that one day we'll have an experience exactly like Bobby Ewing's in the shower? [A post from June 2025 revisited.]
Jun 10
4
3
How was it for you?
Or a week in retrospect.
Jun 7
2
2
1
Mini book reviews
Since February 2017 I have been writing mini book reviews whenever I finish (or fail to finish) reading a book...
May 30
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1
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The thing I miss most about my father
An odd kind of clarity sixteen months on.
May 25
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Short Stories
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"Dead-heading Roses in the Museum Garden and Other Stories" - the trailer
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Mar 24
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"Playbook Fragments"
A short story from my collection "Dead-heading Roses in the Museum Garden and Other Stories" which is published this Saturday, 14th March.
Mar 12
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"Disposable"
A dystopian short story - pertinent in our troubled times - which will make its appearance in my new collection "Dead-heading Roses in the Museum Garden…
Jan 30
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Anthology submission - window closes in two weeks!
"New Contexts: 8" is seeking poetry and short prose for a Spring 2026 publication.
Jan 17
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Fact or fiction?
Or fact and fiction...
Jun 4
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Fiction
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The Big Frog Theory - 7
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
Jun 14
The Big Frog Theory - 6
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
Jun 7
The Big Frog Theory - 5
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
May 31
0:49
Trailer: "The Big Frog Theory"
Trailer for my magic realism novel currently being serialised on this Substack!
May 26
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The Big Frog Theory - 4
The weekly serialisation of my Magic Realism novel.
May 24
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Poetry
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"wipe away all trivial fond records"
A reading
May 14
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2:23
"we have heard the chimes at midnight"
A reading.
May 12
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2:34
A reading of two poems from "not the Sonnets"
Imagine tackling the entirety of Shakespeare’s sonnet cannon with the aim of creating a contemporary and modern interpretation of the poems both in…
May 8
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Grimsby Docks - 5
A series of readings from "Grimsby Docks", my 2024 collection of poems and photographs.
Apr 24
There is poetry in everything...
...even a deckchair
Jun 17
3
3
1
The Craft of Writing
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You don't have a vice?
Who are you kidding?! (A post from 4th June 2025 revisited.)
Jun 4
1
2
When is a book truly finished?
If we think it's when we type 'THE END' then we're kidding ourselves. (And at the end of this article, a poem...)
May 28
2
2
43:39
You as Writer - a workshop presentation
This is my presentation ‘Holding up a Mirror’, something I have given at multiple public writing retreats.
May 21
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In which I wonder about making tea...
...and - loving a metaphor - consider how much tea-making is like writing.
May 19
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A Symphony of Words
What can writers learn from music?
Mar 18
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Work-in-Progress
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It's that time of the year again
...and like the arrival of buses, you wait an age for one and then...
Feb 26
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"Like raindrops dripping from a leaf"
An ekphrastic short story.
Jan 12
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New books from Coverstory for 2026
A quick summary of the new books currently on the stocks for Coverstory books' publication in the first half of 2026.
Dec 29, 2025
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This is NOT a New Year's resolution
- partly because I don't intend to break it!
Dec 27, 2025
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Autobiography - and the battle between fact and fiction
The passage of time makes 'truth' a slippery beast.
Mar 20
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