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I never actually set out to fail. Whenever I start a new project or a new story I don’t ever go into it thinking, I hope I fail this time. Nobody does that, right? But I do seem to fail quite [...]

It’s been a funny sort of week. As a self-employed, full time author who spends most of his day sitting in his cellar staring at a computer screen, it’s important that I plan my week out. Left to [...]

. . . but it almost is. There’s a word for that, isn’t there? Penultimate. Never much liked that word, really. Despite the promise of one more after the current one, it still sounds so very final [...]

I’ve been thinking recently about the artists I admire in the business of creativity, be it writing, music, art or film. And I realised recently that what connects them all is the publish and be [...]

I took Thing One and Thing Two to see Jaws last Sunday. They’ve both seen it before, of course, on DVD. And I have seen it so many times I have lost count, but we’re easily talking three figure [...]

Last Sunday afternoon, Zombies invaded my hometown of Stourbridge. To be fair, there had been a few weeks’ worth of warning. Posters had been up in our local quirky, coolest venue in town, [...]

On a Thursday morning in late July 1964, the author Harry Crews was sleeping late. He was awoken by the sound of his wife screaming. He scrambled out of bed and found her at the front door, [...]

Hey! Psst! Wanna buy a second hand book? Actually, they’re not second hand, they are first hand still. But the Joe Coffin books are now sporting a brand new look (see yesterday’s post here) and I [...]

As Bo Diddley once sang, “You can’t judge a book by the cover,” (and if you don’t believe me, here he is…) But, to be honest, we all do it. I’m generally persuaded to check out a book further [...]

I know, I know, I really shouldn’t be blowing my own trumpet like this. It goes against every instinct in my body. And yet . . . oh what the hell, I’m going to do it anyway. If you [...]