The shortlist for the Willesden Herald's short story competition is up and I'm not on it. Not a surprise, really, when the likes of Toby Litt are among the competition. The Willesden, you may remember, was at the centre of that minor ruckus a few years back when Zadie Smith withheld the top prize, complaining … Continue reading The Willesden Herald
First things first
The Little Blog of Words I Hate has been launched for real, and I make no apologies for the first entry. Nor for its lateness - you should have reckoned with the double New Year Holiday in Scotland. Take a look, all the same. Next week's will go up on Monday morning, I promise.
The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts
Once More Around the Loganberry Bush is one of my more leftfield offerings which breaks a string of Rules of Fiction Writing. Does it get away with it? Just a handful of pounds will yield you the answer...
It’s about time…
Finally I have got this website thingy started... this, just to make clear, is my fiction website. Everything posted here is wholly, or at least mostly, or at any rate essentially made up, by me. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental (Well, it is for the living ones. The … Continue reading It’s about time…