I know it isn’t January the First today – let me look, ah yes, it’s the 19th, well that’ll do. It feels like the beginning of the new year so give me some slack here, OK. It’s 2015 which, for…
It was a full house at the very welcoming Greenwich gallery, Made In Greenwich yesterday when I and three of my Ward Wood Publishing colleagues gave our first collective reading together. Like a band on the road, the four of…
I’m getting ready for next Wednesday when I’m off to Greenwich for a reading from my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love with some of my fellow Ward Wood Publishing writers, Peter Phillips, Sue Guiney, Joe Stein and Adele Ward…
My reading at the splendid Polari literary salon at London’s Southbank Centre last month will remain a fond memory. Luckily, I discovered the other day that it doesn’t have to be just a memory as Adele Ward, my tirelessly supportive…
Shauna Gilligan My fellow Ward Wood novelist, Shauna Gilligan has asked me to join The Writing Process Blog Tour where each writer answers four questions about the writing process and then passes the baton on to another set of writer-bloggers.…
I was at the the Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London on Friday for a poetry event hosted by my publishers, Ward Wood Publishing. I’d never been there before thinking that it might be a rather forbidding environment…
Last night I finished reading Irish writer, Noel Duffy’s two novellas, The Return Journey & Our Friends Electric published by Ward Wood Publishing who, I’m proud to say, are also going to publish my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love,…
This was my road in Lewes, UK, at three o’clock this morning. No much going on but that was OK because I was on my way to bed after a highly entertaining evening in London where I’d been to a…
On Friday night I was in London’s Camden Town for what seems to have become my regular date on the first Friday of the month, Camden Lumen Poetry where I can read one of my poems and listen to other…