• Important stuff!

    24 November 2022

    I was sent the following email by a fan of my books called JAKE. He was just about to start his university degree, and wanted me to know how my books had helped set him on his academic path. I...

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  • Paul Weitz interview reminder

    23 November 2022

    It took 13 years, but the writer/director PAUL WEITZ finally agreed to be interviewed about the Cirque Du Freak movie, on the SYFY WIRE web site, to tie in with the Halloween season at the end of...

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  • The bright side of life

    22 November 2022

    The last 48 hours have been quite surreal and stressful (had a bad house fire on Sunday night - you can read all about it in yesterday’s post), but there have been some funny moments in among the...

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  • Odds and bobs

    22 November 2022

    While I normally try to find connections when I post images here, sometimes it's fun to go with four random, completely-unconnected-in-any-way-at-all photos too -- and this is one of those...

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  • Fire in the hole!!!

    21 November 2022

    Warning - this post doesn’t go in quite the amusing direction that it seems to be going in at the start…

    I was watching a creepy episode of Inside Number 9 last night. Strange things were...

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  • Reviews That Burn

    21 November 2022

    Books That Burn is a podcast about books (mais oui!) which also posts reviews in a section of their site helpfully entitled REVIEWS THAT BURN. It's a really good site, averaging between 15 and 20...

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