• Personal Opinion,  Writing

    Too much TV!

    Why does all the good TV get squeezed into the Autumn/Winter seasons? I guess they think everyone is inside keeping warm and out of the dark nights, but it’s not like we suddenly have less to do in the evenings!…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    I’m off to ComicCon!

    Not the London one this weekend unfortunately, but the MCM ComicCon Birmingham on November 23-24th. I’ve got a stall and I’m going to be selling paperbacks of Powerless plus a little bonus preview of the sequel for those who visit…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    New cover for second edition

    Greetings! Without further ado, I present to you the new cover for Powerless: This comes from an initial sketch I did which I then passed on to a work colleague of mine called Harry Corr who does concept art in…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    You gotta have a system!

    It’s been painfully slow on book two of the Powerless series, and I only just realised why: I had changed the way I was writing. For Powerless I would write a paragraph here, a couple of lines or scenes there…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    Powerless sequel – slow progress

    I’ve been slowly turning my head to a sequel to Powerless since March but this one is taking its time to trickle out of my ears. For a start it’s more complicated in terms of structure. Powerless was pretty straightforward…

  • Website

    New blog design

    Hello, just a quick shout to let you know my blog and website have had a little redesign. It’s now looking a little less ‘late 90s’ and a bit more modern, and should also be easier to navigate with a…

  • Writing

    Tor DRM-Free books – one year on

    In April last year Tor books announced that all their ebooks would go DRM free, that is, they would remove all copy-protection software on their products so that they were not locked to specific devices and could be copied freely…