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  • Worse before it gets better.

    Ah, the joy of editing. Today I have been working on my 12+ novel. It’s a complex beast and keeping an eye on all the various threads in it is always rather a challenge, but this morning I spotted one of those unwanted beasts – the plot hole. Missed by me over all five drafts Read more

  • Nano Cheering!

    Anyone out there doing Nanowrimo this year? If you are, then I’m cheering you all the way to that 50k victory. If you’ve never heard of Nanowrimo, it’s a fun project for writers in the dark days of November. Nanowrimo is short for National Novel Writing Month. You pledge to write, during the 30 days Read more

  • Launch Day!

    Last Wednesday I had one of the best days of my life – the official launch of Arthur and Me at Waterstones’ Aberystwyth. There was cake, squash and lots of books and I got to meet the fabulous Wendy Meddour, who is a fellow Dragonfly. Wendy was at the same school as me and has written a Read more

  • Moving the books around.

    Tonight I spent a very happy couple of hours in a bookshop. After hours. There is something rather special about being in a bookshop when it’s closed that I can’t quite put my finger on. This evening I was there for a poetry reading (Katherine Stansfield’s excellent Playing House, out today), so there was wine Read more

  • New Arrivals!

    Well what a year it’s been! Just over a year ago I entered a competition run by Firefly Press to find a book for children set in contemporary Wales. I sent in a story about a young boy called Tomos who finds King Arthur in a cave and wakes him up, thinking that Arthur will Read more