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Cooking for One, shortbread, mixers, – I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven to entertain my wife. Unfortunately, she died three years ago and before she taught me to cook. Which means I have had to learn […]
Cooking for One, shortbread, mixers, – I wrote Welcome to Oakhaven to entertain my wife. Unfortunately, she died three years ago and before she taught me to cook. Which means I have had to learn […]
Short story, Flower show, Best in Show, Chrysanthemums, Begonias, When McGuire is ill, O’Hara takes over the delivery of manure. Despite the lorry running away, the manure gets delivered, just not as planned.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
I have had comments that the German flag on King or Kaiser is incorrect. It was changed by the designers of Shadows in the Veldt but what is shown there is the flag of the […]