Two years, 140 computer sessions over 100 hours typing and even more researching and making notes. My first complete novel has been sent for formatting so it will be available as an e book in a month or so. Once…

Well almost. I have finished the first novel after just over two years. I now have to edit it which will entail slowly correcting the typos, the chronology, altering bits I don’t like and adding a few sentences here and…

After a break I settled to finish the novel, as I approached the end I realised that I had written several chapters in a “Flashback” and whilst it worked whilst I was writing it when it came to tying the…

Having written the end of the novel some months ago, I subsequently had an idea with regard to the fate of some of the characters. I knew how the book ended, but the timeframe for the rest would not fit,…

As I enter the last phases I redesigned the artwork, there is a cropped version of it here. The reason it is cropped so that it will load easily into the site. It took a while to get right, I…

I have just signed up to Smashwords who publish e books for a world market. So I am one step nearer.

I think about the fifth story, which will be what is referred to as “Two Hander” like “Sleuth”, “Waiting for Godot” or Stephen King’s “Misery”. I might attempt to write it as play, which would present a new set of…

I have decided to split the ending of my book. I have written the final chapter but as I now approach it I think I need to put some other points in. In my local supermarket this morning it was…

    The picture at the top of these pages is of a sunset is over a volcano called “Mount Tujuh”, which overlooks Lake Gunung Tujuh, within the Kerinci National Park in Western Sumatra. The Indonesian name is “Danau Gunung…

In the early hours of Sunday morning I had an idea for a character, rather than a book. I had just had the idea for a fifth book, but worried I may not be good enough to write it given…