I'm saying it right up front - I won the Three Peaks. I won it inasmuch as it was the toughest mental and physical challenge I've ever undertaken. The only person I beat was myself - and that's more than good enough. For the non-UKers, the Three Peaks Challenge is climbing the three highest mountains … Continue reading Winning the Three Peaks Challenge
Month: July 2016
Last night was DHH Literary Agency's summer party. Held inside - and outside - Goldsboro Bookshop, it was an evening of improbably pink champagne (my head does not thank me this morning) and meeting the great and good of this weird new world called publishing in which I find myself. Having met only David Headley, … Continue reading Meeting the stars
This is a short piece I wrote for Birmingham Writers' Group last week. They provided me with some really useful feedback and I've rewritten a couple of sections to tighten it up. Thanks, guys! **** ‘Go and fetch it, Keaton. Take it back to them. Show’s over.’ ‘Mistress, it wasn’t made for such as us … Continue reading Short fiction – Star song
Ooh, use of the Oxford comma in the title there. Random. Better not do that when I draft Godblind's sequel. I've had some busy times lately. In June I met Natasha Bardon, my editor at Harper Voyager, for a fabulous lunch in the Hix, Bankside. We hit it off straight away (or we did from … Continue reading Reads, Goodreads, and Writes
