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Writing, e-books, publicity, selling, holiday reads – Seven of the books I’ve written are published as e-books and Welcome to Oakhaven as paperback but there’s more to it than just putting words on a page. […]
Writing, e-books, publicity, selling, holiday reads – Seven of the books I’ve written are published as e-books and Welcome to Oakhaven as paperback but there’s more to it than just putting words on a page. […]
Writer’s group – What I enjoy about our group is the varied interests of the members, some preferring poetry, some writing children’s books, some modern fiction, while I prefer historical fiction or humour. We ‘have […]
– Because I write about Scotland, I’ve been accused of being a Scottish Nationalist but I write about what I know and I’ve been through all of the drove road country, so I wrote Drover. […]
McPherson, Moidart, Australia, Drover – How Mary McPherson got to Australia was a story in itself. Her husband was a ship’s captain but there were few jobs in the depression and he was working as […]
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Moidart, Australia and drover McPherson. My wife had an adopted aunt called Mary, whose father had been a drover. I heard of Mary as Mary McPherson but women had a habit of calling their friends […]
Ben Okri – I watched Ben Okri being interviewed – what a great experience. A story should be about life, not a genre. It should be political, military, ordinary and romantic as well as sad […]
I’ve been researching to do a follow up novel on Drover. It’s set in Scotland after Waterloo with all the unsettled returning soldiers and the early mechanisation of the cotton industry. At school we were […]
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round, if I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
RSPB produce brochures that tell how to make a garden that will attract butterflies and birds and provide a habitat for things birds eat. It’s ideal for teaching 7 to 10-year-olds or even teens who […]