THE ICE HOUSE THE ICE HOUSE, my new novel, is now available to buy. The hardback was published in May 2019 – by clicking on the link you can grab a copy with free shipping worldwide. You can also buy from indie bookstore Mr B’s Emporium, or Forbidden Planet, even Amazon. I talked about how important … Read more

Wow! We’ve started Week 7. Once you reach this point, you’re three-quarters of the way through the boot camp, and the end is in sight. So these last two weeks are all about setting you up so you have everything you need to turn the positive habits you’ve practised and the skills you’ve been working … Read more

Our second week of the fiction boot camp continues with a late night session, and I talk (a little loosely, if I’m honest) about writing at different times of day and learning to surprise your unconscious.

No exercises today, but I recorded a little off-the-cuff episode just to reflect on the course so far and what I think about starting to write. So it’s some miscellaneous advice that I didn’t want to bog down each episode with. You don’t have to have started the 8 week course to listen to this … Read more