A Crisis for Katsoumi
…Read More…: A Crisis for Katsoumian extract from RAGAZZO, published September 2024 by Alien Rabbit Katsoumi Tabatabee was the son of the Persian revolutionary Mohammad Tabatabee, who became obsessed with overturning the Monarchy when some sugar merchants were punished by having their feet beaten for refusing to lower their prices. For ten years, until the final establishment of the Majlis, the…
BIRTH of a Book
…Read More…: BIRTH of a BookHOW TO WRITE A NOVEL – AND GET IT PUBLISHED I am always asked, ‘how long did it take you to write?’ ‘What was the process of editing?’ ‘How did you get an agent/publisher?‘ My beautiful RAGAZZO is to be published by Alien Rabbit on 26th September 2024 seven years after I wrote the first…
Soho Warrior
…Read More…: Soho WarriorTo be published ((TBA)). My first Crime Thriller! About the book Soho Warrior is the story of Alex, whose best friend is found stabbed to death in a notorious gay cruising area of London. This is the late 1990s and the London gay scene is being stalked by a killer. Determined to find him, Karate…
Next!
…Read More…: Next!How an Author gets his Kickers in a Twist I have been rather off blogging since November, for which I apologise. I have been so very tied up – completing and editing my next novel, mainly. It happened like this: in my desperate hunt for a publisher brave enough to take on my beloved ‘Ragazzo’,…
CoP28 – Conference or Con?
…Read More…: CoP28 – Conference or Con?Will #COP28 be a JaberWock? There can be no doubt about man’s effect on the climate of our Earth. Brilliant scientists with access to mountains of data have confirmed this. Our emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Methane, amongst other gases are facing us with the biggest challenge ever faced by Humanity as a whole: a…
WINNER 2023!
…Read More…: WINNER 2023!I have pleasure in announcing the WINNER of this year’s MEGASAGA writing competition – The winning story is…..is…. (drum roll) BE WARNED The oceans are mine! I have lived in their depths for longer than your kind has existed. In earlier times I have come to the surface and drawings of me destroying your wooden…
THE SHORTLIST 2023
…Read More…: THE SHORTLIST 2023Here are the SHORTLISTED stories in this year’s MEGASAGA competition. Which would YOU give the £100 prize to? The rules: stories have to be 100 words exactly, including the title. These are the submissions we have decided to put to the judges; if yours isn’t included, please don’t be despondent! It takes courage to submit…
The Sea Saw – write a sea story – for £100!
…Read More…: The Sea Saw – write a sea story – for £100!The MEGASAGA competition theme this year is THE SEA It doesn’t have to be THEIR story! It can be yours! Or purest fiction. BUT IT HAS TO BE EXACTLY 100 WORDS INCLUDING THE TITLE! And, of course, be about the sea. I spend some of the most enjoyable times of my life on the waves.…