If At First You Don't Succeed…(Shhh!!!)
IF THERE’S ONE thing I’ve learnt from a decade of working in Sales, it’s this: Rejection is inevitable. What you do with that rejection, is another thing altogether. Like most aspiring authors I’ve got my fair share of rejection letters from publishers and agents. Nothing new there, but without any valuable, critical feedback it is […]
The Voices Inside My-, Who Said That?
THE PAST THREE months have been the most productive and creative of my life. That might not be reflected on this little blog, but behind the scenes, and under the cover of the Colombian Sun, I’ve cranked up my writing. Three books are in the pipeline for 2016. A lifelong goal of having something tangible […]
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 […]
Inverting Winter and Future Projects
I HAD NO intention of spending Winter back in cold, wet and dreary Ireland so have moved back to Colombia this week. Medellin again for at least another three months. I only came back from the city to Ireland last month for Godfather duties and the small matter of the Rugby World Cup but was […]
The Danger of Losing Novel Threads
I find it very easy to come up with new novel ideas for blog posts/short stories and typically follow up promptly while the seed is germinating in my mind. However, what I find most difficult is spitting out onto electronic paper those first few chapters of a brand new novel idea and maintaining the consistency […]