Life 
Blackout(0)
You might think, especially after my last post, that I’d be in favour of something like the Stop Online Piracy Act that’s in danger of being passed into law in the US. After all, anything that helps prevent my books from being stolen has to be a good thing for me, right? Not so. While [...]
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Birthdays & Bloodbath Book Reviews
I’m still alive. And thirty-seven today. There is a reasonable chance that these two facts together have caused you to lose money, in which case I can only apologise, and advise you that gambling is a fool’s recreation. For my birthday, my mug collection was made complete. Every father should have such a mug. Now [...]
Pad & Pen
A perfect start to the New Year. Me, this pen, and this pad. Making stories. Long may it continue. The day hasn’t been without some oddness though. Just half an hour ago, a neighbour knocked on the door, looking a little embarrassed. His opening gambit? “Um. I think I might have accidentally borrowed your car…” [...]
2011 (or, thank god that’s over)
And the sun goes down in 2011. I’m unwell today, nursing a deeply unhappy stomach, and so not in a particularly celebratory mood. It’s the perfect representative way to end a year that hasn’t been great for me. Thankfully, the things that have been wrong, and which have kicked at my self-esteem and ambitions, have [...]
