Sometimes I'm Just A Miserable ****

Added on 05 December 2011

A weird thing happened on the website last week. And when I say "the website", I'm not talking like an old person when they say something like, "oh, can you check on the website" about absolutely anything, as if there's only the one website in existence containing all th...

This Blasted Life #4

Added on 01 December 2011

Today sees the release of the Blasted Heath digital edition of THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT. The paperback has obviously been around for a while, and there's been a previous digital edition, but now it's been edited by Scottish crime fiction supremo Al Guthrie, and although he didn...

You Are Dead To Me, Darth

Added on 28 November 2011

They say that people have been crying at the John Lewis advert. While one must accept that today's society is shallow enough that sections of it would cry at a John Lewis advert, on this occasion I reckon that it's only shallow enough to warrant that people say that people have been crying ...

This Blasted Life #3

Added on 24 November 2011

The latest episode of This Blasted Life - or This Blasted Life 3 to give it's Sunday best title - has now been posted over at Blasted Heath. I live in England (at the moment). Every now and again someone says to me, what do you think of Scottish independence? I usually say that I'm not sure...

5 Deaths In Barney Thomson Novels

Added on 18 November 2011

Today I've written another blog on someone else's website. Yes, I know, it's extraordinary that anyone would even ask. It's a list of 5 Deaths In Barney Thomson Novels. Not necessarily the Top 5, as voted for by gullible fools phoning in at £1.50 a minute, it's just any ol...