The way in which our brain generates ideas is one thing that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, although I think animals...

Well, this is exciting! Today is the first stop on my blog tour, organised by Goddess Fish Promotions. During the course of the next two...

My Toxandria map emerged from a fantasy game called Khan, that I developed in my teenage years. It was essentially a strategy game, in...

This are the last words in my WiP ('That which the deep heart knows'). The theme is of life, death and renewal, describing the...

Has a man ever bought a cushion? I’m not talking about the purchase of such an item as a gift. Doubtless, such occasions have arisen....

In this extract, the Mother (Ria) rejects the wooing of Tetheos, Lord of the Oceans: The song of Ohbrid (part 2) Beyond gull haunted...

When I was a kid I had Scalextric. For those of you unfamiliar with this, I should tell you that it was an electrified track system on...

I don’t think I’m a particularly formal person. I do, however, think that a certain social distance in human interactions creates a sense...

Prologue- Prata- December 3993an The island was bleak in December, although there was something grim about it even at the height of...

As someone recently retired from teaching I have written a great many reports on pupils during the thirty-eight years of my career. At...

In order to create an immersive imaginary world to serve as the context for my next book, I've begun to create a body of literature...

Have you ever tried scuba-diving? Perhaps your experience was better than mine. I’ve always liked the notion of the sea. I like to be...

Four Letter Words Ten thousand years of thought and toil That wrought the iron, tilled the soil, Are written in our teeming brows With...

My home town used to be famous for making glass. That was in the days before it was discovered that people in foreign countries could do...

I enjoy this word as a noun. It calls to mind notions of human skill in moulding challenging materials to suit human need. I think of...

I think it’s so sad that some children apparently grow up in houses without books. Books were a vital part of my childhood experience and...

Creating imaginary worlds seems almost as old as humanity itself. From Plato’s conception of Atlantis, more than 2000 years ago, through...

Twice is nice. It’s a perfectly good word that (I think) most people understand and yet it is apparently being replaced in print, the...

When I was ten I wrote my first book. I still have it in the back of a drawer, ‘The Adventures of George and His Friends’, written in my...

I was always a dreamy child. At school I was often obliged to sit away from the classroom window, because my attention was usually...