Would you believe it's almost two years since I started writing the first draft of 'An Alternative History of Balesley Green'? I don't know the exact date I opened a new Word document and started typing, but by the 8th December 2007, I'd got almost...

I was asked this morning 'How on earth do crime writers write crime? How do they enjoy it? How do they sleep?'. Note that this was with respect to portraying gruesome murder, as opposed to a cozy whodunnit (though I'm sure the same question could be...

Saturday was the tweet-up - an excellent meeting of the cream of this country's cognoscenti - while Sunday was marred by something happening to my face. I don't know what it was, but it felt like sunburn. But that's not what I'm here to write about,...

Reading the Peter Jackson biography, then watching 'The Frighteners' director's cut, then watching some of the bonus features from the film has given me a hankering to shoot another short film. However, short films are an awful lot of work, which was...

Okay, after mentioning my intention to trying the dating thing again, I thought I would keep track of some numbers, because after saying that it was all about numbers it would be churlish of me to try only a couple of times and then give up. Plus it...