A diversion which became something so much more

I had just finished writing Ronin the first book in what was to become the Col Sec series and I was in a difficult place personally. My partner and I were moving house and there were all sorts of complications, both with work and everything that this move encompassed. What had started out to be…

Reality check….

One of my favourite authors was and to some extent, still is, Jack Higgins and I remember reading an article about him back in the day, I think it was around the mid eighties when he was in the height of his fame. The article stated that he had humble beginnings, which I could relate…

The role of an author.

I was asked recently what was the role of an author and at first the answer seemed obvious to me. Let’s take this in the correct context though. First off the conversation I was having was basically a questionnaire for a publisher and it was in relation to this that I was asked the question….

Forever and a day

On a recent trip to London I visited the Waterstones book store in Trafalgar Square where I picked up a copy of the new James Bond book, Forever and a day written by Anthony Horowitz. That sounds far grander than it was, we were on a city break on one of our allotted annual leave…

Back home

It’s been a while but here I am back on WordPress. I tried other resources to build a blog on but none of them were as good or as easy to build as this was. The last time I was on here my blog was called DoubleTrouble which I thought was quite a catchy name…