Taking Over the Library – Chaos to Order

This is my new site!!! I have absolutely no idea how to use word press, so just trying to work… Read more Taking Over the Library – Chaos to Order

My Next Book

This is a crime against blogging, but it’s been a year since my last entry. I started a full time… Read more My Next Book

a) the two-glass wine hypothesis will prove to be correct. b) events are very tiring, especially one hour lunchtime readings… Read more Notes to Self Prior to a Year of Events

Reading out your work in front of people for the purpose of their entertainment is a daunting prospect for any… Read more The War Tour on Tour and exactly how much wine to drink before a reading

No one gives you media training if you’re a writer, so I thought I’d share the mistakes I made on… Read more How not to talk on the radio

The Edge Hill Prize and Other Stories Well I’m very excited to be shortlisted for the 2012 Edge Hill Prize… Read more

Despite a furious bidding war between The Daily Mail, The Sun and The Mirror, as well as several journalists camping… Read more EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!

I don’t have a kindle. Kind of beginning to feel a bit left out. Especially since Short Stack is available… Read more Short Stack

I’ve been asked a few times about where I got my stories from. The most notable time was on Women’s… Read more Are they real? Characters and why I wrote The War Tour

For National Libraries Day I read at Meadows Library in Maghull, Sefton. With the closures and threats of closures, Meadows… Read more How to Save a Library and Lise Meitner goes to Maghull