Have people who live cruel nasty lives ever enjoyed good fiction? I have been going through an existential writer crisis around this question: what the hell is fiction for? Why invent people, put them into situations, when it’s all lies?…
Dear fellow ephemera 2,026 years ago, Christian founding myth has it, the ‘Saviour of the World’ was born. (Still waiting for this Dead Guy to do some saving).According to the origins myth, using the genealogies in Genesis the Earth was…
Handel’s RomCom at the Colosseum It’s hard not to go to any production of a Handel Opera for me. Obviously, Mr Mrs Ms and Master Public don’t seem to have a similar problem. They often stay away in droves. And…
And I’ve been rolling with it! Frankly, I can’t take credit for it much as I would like to. My Ragazzo was published last Autumn, so the blossoming and blooming of Baroque in Britain was planned way before Guido stepped…
So far, all the reviews of RAGAZZO have been 5 star. This is fine by me – I would unhesitatingly give the novel a 5 star review, not because I wrote it – I just enjoy re-reading it – I…
It really is months since I’ve blogged. Actually, the last blog was last year. And now, possibly my last year. Ahead, probably my last summer. I have been scrolling my way through the almost ten years of this website –…
Greetings from Planet Errrrth oh Great One! I know it has been around three hundred Aldeberanian years since last I sent you a report from this benighted Planet, for which I apologise. But as you know, my plan is to…
an 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…
HOW 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…
To 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…