The Daily Rot

STARTING MARCH 1ST I’M EMBARKING on an ambitious project which, in equal measures both excites and terrifies me. Some background: Last Summer I enrolled in a Coding Course to reskill as a full stack software developer. As I near the end of the course, I’m finding it quite difficult to land my first developer job […]

Alt Media Novel Ideas

I’VE ALWAYS HAD a fascination with the weird and wonderful. Whether it was the X-files as a teen, ghosts and the paranormal as a young adult, or now – as a dork in his mid-thirties – keen subscriber to alternative media channels like David Icke, Max Igan or Richie Allen. Whether you believe in what […]

Puking on the Page

SOMETIME’S THERE’S NOTHING quite like a good ol’ puke. Usually, that feeling creeps up on me when I have a throbbing hangover. The urgent need for a release to purge my insides of the toxic booze from the night before. Thankfully, those days are few and far between. When it does happen though, it feels […]

Reading for Writing

YOU CAN’T EAT an elephant in one bite. But you can eat it one bite at a time. So begins my quest to complete BBC’s Big Read Top 100 Novels list. The list is a little dated now, publicised in 2003 to find Britain’s best loved book. The top 21 are presented on this page, as […]

How to Read a Book

I was a prolific reader in my late teens. Before the advent of social media and reality TV shows my addiction back in the noughties (how I despise that term!) was reading books. I was in the throes of a Degree at University that was not a fit for my ambition or interest and reading novels […]