The Blotter
Michael’s solution to the tensions between the Blog and the Letter.
Welcome to the Blotter page! The Blotter aims to satisfy those who like the swift inter-action facilitated by blogs as well as those who prefer the approach of a traditional letters page.
Why We Love a Good Baddie
The trusted readers who worked their way through the manuscript of my newly completed novel were consistent in their response to the antics of my anti-hero.
Still crazy after all these tears
It seems my debut novel, The Fruits of Rashness, has yet to fall open in front of a literary agent who wants to snap it up, but being a SORO (Stick-Of-Rock Optimist), I’m sure it soon will.
The main protagonist in my novel makes good!
The Journalists’ Charity ran a competition inviting descriptions of a modern day character that Charles Dickens might admire.
Writing in Lockdown – or should that be Blockdown?
It’s got to be seriously annoying if you’re a writer, stuck at home, in isolation, with all the writing tools at your fingertips – laptop, Remington Model 12, pencil, paper, desk, kitchen table, whatever – and the words won’t come.
Tis the season to be pitching
Christmas is soon upon us and there are many things to do. One of those things for a writer with a novel to air is pitching said novel to agents and publishers. That’s what is happening right now with my crime novel, The Fruits of Rashness.
Longlisted in the CWA Awards
I couldn’t really believe it when I received the news my debut novel, The Fruits of Rashness, had been longlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award – especially as there were only nine other names on the longlist, which was drawn from many hundreds of submissions.