When my wife Carol told me last December that she had entered my historical novel “None Stood Taller” for the 2022 Selfies Award, which is specifically for self-published authors, I did not believe that I would have any success in this competition. After all, I only started writing books in 2017 during enforced ‘captivity’ after […]

This is Carol, apologising to our readers and followers that your emails and comments are not getting through to us at the moment; it’s very frustrating and I know it sounds ridiculous but our website has been half-way through the process of being upgraded for some months now, I’m afraid, but I hope it will […]

When you buy a book from an author you’re buying more than a story. You are buying numerous hours of errors and re-writes. You are buying moments of frustration and moments of sheer joy. You are not buying just a book, you are buying something they delight in sharing, a piece of their heart, a […]

I am inspired to write today because two teenage tennis players have just competed in the Final of the American Open. Neither of them should have been there. Neither of them had the experience nor the ranking to be anywhere near the Final. If I wrote a novel about an eighteen-year-old British girl who had […]