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...

I Miss David Tennant As The Doctor. There, I Said It.

Added on 01 June 2011

I was on a BBC screenwriting workshop last summer when the subject of Dr Who arose. (When you're on BBC screenwriting workshops you spend a lot of time talking about BBC shows that actually got commissioned and made.) I was shocked, really really SHOCKED, to discover that virtually everyone in the r...

The Bloody Lazy Song

Added on 31 May 2011

Let's consider The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars. Why should we? you're asking. Well, you don't have to, I just am because I've had to listen to it for something like eight hours in the car. It's a jaunty enough little number, and no mistake. I have it in my head now, although after eight hours that's no...

My Part In This Blog

Added on 28 May 2011

The regular reader might notice that I rarely write stuff about the publishing industry or the general business of writing, apart from when it relates to me. I suspect this makes me look like some sort of narcissist. You know you can always tell the self-obsessed by how often they use the words I an...