Featured Author
So, I was the featured author on Charlie Cochrane's blogs this week. The first time - apart from a Fahrenheit chat when Death of a DIva was released - that I've been interviewed. Typically, I agonised over the answers - do I want to appear pure comedy and silliness...
Saturday Sonnet #2
I don’t wish death on any living thing, But find it hard to know that Bowie’s gone. That Prince no more will dance and play and sing, While Bashir Al Assad goes rolling on. Yet I’ll still play “Let’s Dance,” and “Kiss” Out LOUD Not read Mein Kampf from first page to...
Saturday Sonnet #1
"There's something wrong with Sandra," said her mum As Sandy Sat and hugged a Prada Bag "She's quiet nowadays; morose and glum And has a tendency to lose her rag. Since Yves, that French boy, left, she's been this way Cos she's a Francophile and he was Male But like I...
Our Sunrise
So we woke at 0600 this morning to sit in the half light on a deserted beach and listen to the South Pacific Crashing on the shore, and hissing as it dragged back out, pulling shingle with it. It was cool, but not cold, and we chatted for a few minutes before...
The First Draft Lesson
This week’s been an interesting one for my writing. I write crime fiction, which I think is heavily reliant on plot, and as a result, before I start writing, I always have a plot (and several sub-plots) mapped out, from beginning to end. I write a detailed sketch of...
Songs From The Marq
http://open.spotify.com/user/113546993/playlist/60bTQVUNzGvczTvcxjmtDJ Death of a Diva is available now. To buy it, click here. You can also send it as a personalised Gift E-Book here. I write in noise. My mother used to tell anyone who cared to listen that, as a...