This story is printed in the bumper Christmas issue of the Costa TV Times , together with a plug for my psychic spy thriller The Tehran Tran...

Although the book A Fistful of Legends is now 'published', due to the vagaries of online setup etc, you can't order this until 3...

A new story of mine - 'A Gigantic Leap' is featured in Midnight Street magazine #13. It can be obtained at: http://www.midnightstree...

I'm pleased to announce that this anthology's publication date is 12 December 2009. Due to the setup requirements for online retaile...

WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL Donald Maass, Writer’s Digest Books Donald Maass, the author, founded his literary agency in 1980 and since then ...

The book complete with cover is with the printer. A proof copy will be sent to me in the next week and after checking for any errors, it wil...

Last time, I covered beginnings for short stories. They are crucial, because every word has to count in a short story. With a novel, while t...

Born of Joy ‘Sorrow is born of excessive joy’ – Chinese proverb Quite a few years ago our vicar wrote down on slips of paper the many names ...

DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL? by Horace ‘Jim’ Greasley Appropriately, I finished reading this book on Remembrance Sunday. Long after I...

The followup anthology to Where Legends Ride officially has a title: A FISTFUL OF LEGENDS. James Reasoner has done everyone proud with an ex...

Though this was written before the million-bestseller The Da Vinci Code , and features the same hero, Robert Langdon, it was filmed after Da...

Whether a short story or a novel, the beginning is very important. It's probably the most edited and changed aspect of any written work....