Very happy to have completed the third draft of Project Artichoke. Diane read the second draft and gave me her thoughts on that, which helped inform the revisions in the new draft. Having left it alone for about a month I came back to it with fresh eyes, which is always useful. I’ve been using…
Do you live near Middlesbrough in the UK? I’m doing a free event in Waterstones Middlesbrough later this month with fellow author Stephen Aryan. Stephen is the author of the Age of Darkness trilogy. Battlemage, the first book in the series was published in September 2015 by Orbit books in the USA and UK. Book 2,…
Time for another Writing & Stuff vlog thing. This time I’m chatting to my buddy Chris Chatterton about his brand new picturebook, Supermarket Gremlins.
Just a quick update – more for my own satisfaction than for any other reason – to say I’ve completed draft 2 of Project Artichoke. More soon.
I filmed the latest edition of Writing & Stuff on a trip to London last week. It’s the usual mix of rambling thoughts and vague plans but with added shaky camera effects! On the bright side it also includes an interview with my agent, Juliet Mushens, who gives some advice to writers submitting their work…