Category: Writing development

100 Words of Solitude

During Lockdown, that infamous time when the mental health of so many young people was undermined, apparently to save the lives of people my age who have already had good lives, there was a competition to provide 100 words summing up our experience of the pandemic. ‘Launchpad’ was my contribution….

The Novels

Last year I completed a murder/mystery novel set in the Scottish Highlands, titled ‘Nothing Is Secret Which Will Not Be Known’. So far not really attracting the attention of literary agents and one didn’t like the title at all, preferring the previous one; ‘The Return of Quany MacGillivray’ . It’s…

Interview with Tramp Press, Ireland

While I was in Bantry at the West Cork Literary Festival I landed a 15 minute slot with Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press. I pitched my completed novel ‘Nothing Is Secret Which Will Not Be Known’ without setting the heather alight, but when I mentioned the novel I’m working on…