Well it’s definitely been a busy month for my fellow writers at the Alexandria Publishing Group. After Terry Simpson’s release last week, I’m pleased to announce that another group member, Paul Kater, has released a new children’s book, Charisma the young witch. Here’s a quick synopsis for you: In this story we meet Charisma. She

A big congratulations to my fellow Alexandria Publishing Group author Terry Simpson on the release of his new novel, Ashes and Blood. Ashes and Blood is an exciting epic fantasy, book 2 of his Aegis of the Gods series. Here’s a quick synopsis: Ancel Dorn has gained the first of his power. And now he’s

It’s been a while since I did one of my musical lists, so I thought today was a good time to get something up – it’s good to take a break from blabbing about books for a change, and music has always had a big impact on my writing. I’m always trying to write a

Does anybody remember the TV show Soap? Way back in the early 80s (or was that late 70s – surely I’m not that old) it was one of my favourites. But there was one thing about it that used to always really annoy me. I really got into that show. I really liked the characters

A couple of weeks ago, Jim Murdoch wrote an interesting post about genre in books and literature. It was a really interesting post about a subject that I also think a lot about. I have to say, this whole genre things confounds me quite a bit. Why do we feel that we have to put