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I’ve been blogging for some years on a variety of topics – Mental Health, the Arts, the occasional bit of sport. Since making the decision in 2020 to take my writing more seriously, and having sold my first novella, I’m now also blogging about my experience of being a writer. It’s a heady blend of topics, essentially.

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Stay on target…

Writing | Movies Writing Mental Health: It’s a little over a month now until Greyskin lands and the jitters are setting in. Self-sabotage, self-doubt, self-loathing – these are my calling cards. So it’s with depressing predictability that I start doubting myself. After Playtime’s Over came out, I wrote a blog about my feelings at the…

I have in my hands…

Writing | Movies Writing: I arrived home from work Saturday lunchtime to find a package awaiting me, which I ripped open eagerly to find, yes, a proof of Greyskin. After months of revisions, planning and back-and-forth emails, the amazing day came when I held in my hands my book in actual book form. As, I…

We need to talk about Auntie.

It has not been a great week for the BBC. Their inexplicable decision to pull Gary Lineker from Match of the Day off the back of a tweet where he criticised a government policy towards refugees and asylum seekers has backfired enormously. While their decision has been unironically cheered by Free Speech, anti-Cancel Culture enthusiasts,…

I saw Cocaine Bear and now nothing else matters in the world.

Writing | Movies | Culture Writing: Things are definitely hotting up around the Greyskin release. We have a set date for our London Launch event and we’re making plans for a Norwich event shortly afterwards. I’ve pretty much settled on the passage I shall be reading from at the launch, from my favourite story in…

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