Zanzibar, a sun-drenched archipelago off the east coast of Arica has long held a fascination for travellers. Its history is an...

Things are getting moving now as we approach publication day for the second in Alex Trueman’s adventures, ‘Worm Winds of Zanzibar.’ In...

The second book of Deborah J Lightfoot’s Waterspell Series left me enthralled by its dramatic climax and eager to read more. Nor was I to...

I very much enjoyed The Warlock, the first in Deborah J Lightfoot’s Waterspell quadrology so I was really looking forward to reading the...

I joined Ancestry.com last week. I think my reason for doing this was a desire to place myself in an historical context, to see my life...

There is an impressively immersive quality in Deborah J Lightfoot's, writing which draws you in and keeps you there as the pages turn....

Reading is an intensely visual experience. On first impression, one might conclude that looking at a cartoon strip or a picture book is...

I always loved English and History at school but I guess my favourite class was Art. Drawing was something that always came easy to me...

This is an image I made to illustrate a children's story I wrote, entitled 'Rebecca and the Dark Horse. I tried various illustrational...

This, my friends, is a ‘mushroom’ and always will be, so why have I noticed it increasingly being referred to as a ‘shroom’ on the menus...

I was growing up in the sixties and seventies and the first book I can remember being totally bowled over by was The Hobbit. This book...

I suppose one shouldn’t be surprised to find that a book which won the Booker Prize is really rather good, and so I was reassuringly...

My first reaction, upon being offered a contract proposing to make a movie of my book, would be delight. How could it not be? In my...

There’s something infinitely fascinating about Time. I know I’m not the only one to think so, given the large number of books and movies...

I’m sure that one reason for the success of Marvel and DC comics is that they tap into a deep vein of human aspiration, the desire to be...

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....