Delighted to be sending out the first issue of my Museletter, 'Twisted Tales', with news, a new short story, a poem and the first of my Top Tens, among other features. Enjoy!

Delighted to see two local papers carrying features on me and my second novel, Destiny of Souls this week!


The Hawick Paper


The Southern Reporter

It was back to Mainstreet Trading in St Boswells for the launch event for my second novel, Destiny of Souls. A thoroughly enjoyable evening included a powerpoint show, presentation, readings, Q&A session, book signing, drinks and nibbles. Fantastic venue, great audience, good questions, and terr...

Learning more about this craft as time goes on, I've now adopted a system for the redrafting process. This includes the 'technical draft' as I call it: the third draft, where I look at any potentially overused words (one early draft of my first novel featured the word 'terrible' 72 times) and iron o...