My Journal

I had a great day at my MA graduation at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester a couple of weeks ago. We drove up on the day and were surprised at how busy it was. I have a couple of Bachelor's degrees already, and at my first graduation about fifteen years ago, I saw...

If you are writing Historical Fiction, at some point you are going to have to make certain decisions. Specifically, you will have to decide whether to let your characters speak in their native tongue, or use words that they would have used, all in the spirit of...

The first part of my WIP novel "The Hands of Time", takes place in the Roman Empire during the 3rd Century. As always, when doing any writing (especially Historical Fiction), it is important to do sufficient research to make your work believable. There is no point in...

No matter how good you think you are, how many people tell you that your work is fabulous, eventually you will start to submit your work to agents and publishers. It's then that you find out that perhaps you aren't quite as good as you think, and the rejections start...