The Snow Queen
I wrote The Spirit of Skiing for my wife, who did not have the wonderful experience the adverts suggest skiing to be. It is one of the short stories in Bees in My Bonnet, which […]
I wrote The Spirit of Skiing for my wife, who did not have the wonderful experience the adverts suggest skiing to be. It is one of the short stories in Bees in My Bonnet, which […]
Yachts, Book Covers and mysteries – I sometimes wonder if I do things the wrong way round and I should take a book cover and write the story about that instead of finding a cover […]
Miss Kirkwood and John Brown save
Cairndhu village flower show
Cecil Rhodes and Military History – I was in the village of Pniel in the Dwars River Valley outside Cape Town, from which grew the two stories, King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt, […]
Mrs Boniface is back in Oakhaven from Germany and her visit to Herr Mann’s Schloss. Not so much a castle as a house and a house needing a bit or repair and some new plumbing. […]
Writing for an Audience, Commercial novels, Writers who want to make a profit are urged to write for an audience. I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven for my wife and I’m glad to say she enjoyed […]
This 1820 is the date of the last armed insurrection on mainland Britain and the Scottish Nationalists would like it portrayed as a struggle for Scottish independence. It was nothing of the kind. It was […]
This 1820 novel is a challenge and I will finish it in time. It’s not my style or genre, I suppose, and I’m going to let it stew for a while. I had laid out […]
– I have ten minutes to sell Best in Show to a literary agent but I’m not a salesman. I tried selling rock drills but when one of the clients started to talk rubbish I […]
Flower show, Gardening, Chrysanthemums I’ve chopped and changed the cover for Best in Show, the gardener’s tale about saving Cairndhu flower show but this is the final . The writing is fixed. I din’t know […]