Cats: 21st Century Narcissistic Killing Machines

Added on 13 June 2011

We don't have cats, but the local cats use our garden like it's Oxford Street. Most times of the day it's a busy feline thoroughfare. Occasionally there's a bit of a Mexican standoff, and then they go about their business, divvying up the frogs, birds and mice on offer. [The term Mexican standoff i...

A Cod Supper, Prime Minister

Added on 10 June 2011

Finishing off Current Crime Novel (CCN) with view to getting it to agent by the end of the first week in July. He'll have a read, hopefully doesn't make too many suggestions, but might do, you never know, I get them done, and then he's in the position to take it out into the publishing world at the ...

A Cockroach Moment

Added on 08 June 2011

Inspired by Sabrina Ogden's great cockroach tale from yesterday, here's a short five second story of a singular instance of a cockroach. By five second, I mean that the action took place in about five seconds, rather than the fact that it'll take five seconds to read. Being a writer 'n all, I'll spi...

Publishing World In Crisis As Author Postpones Online Novel

Added on 06 June 2011

The world of publishing today crashed helplessly into a tailspin of abject, defenestrated gut-spewing abomination as Scottish crime writer and bestselling author of the self-help book The Visigoths Are Back, And This Time They're A Washing Up Liquid, Douglas Lindsay, announced to a packed news confe...

The Bloody Weather Blog

Added on 05 June 2011

It's 15 degrees and a bit muggy. Been a lot of rain today in the west country. Funny that, because the Daily Express had a couple of headlines last month which said that the whole of June and July were going to be BOILING and that the temperature wouldn't drop below 20 degrees for the entire sixty-o...