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Many of us get locked into a routine of traveling to and from work in order to do something we dislike or even despise. We buy ourselves travel tickets or pick up transport costs in order to get to this place, where we are often surrounded by people we care little for, and produce [...]

Autobiography might be the formal description, but most of the autobiographies I read seem to be severely edited and keep all the raw emotion of a life away from the pages that are supposed to be describing that same life.
When you want to get your story down on the page take the time to establish [...]

The purists tell me that writing is only about cultural identity, about aesthetics, about art and life.  They are wrong.  Writing is about anything you want it to be that calls to you or which makes you take action.
I have written books about heart and soul, about investment, about the process of money in life, and about [...]

A few days ago I was lucky enough to have been a delegate at the UK Crime Literature Festival.  Based in Harrogate at the beautifully refurbished Crown Hotel, the event was a packed four days of talks, discussions and panel interviews.  Sponsored by Theakstons Brewery, who funded this years Crime Book award.  More about this [...]

We all love books and the written form.
I imagine that you enjoy visiting bookshops, and not just the big and bright chainstore book depots that you find at motorway junctions and in city centres.  These are great of course, sometimes simply for the sheer volume of stock they carry as well as for the hours [...]

Just yesterday I had lunch with a brilliant writer at Betty’s in Ilkley.  For those of you who do not know the history or significance of Betty’s let it be simply said that the place is an institution and a bit of a landmark.  Just like the Tea Rooms in Harrogate is a part of the Yorkshire [...]

You have committed time and money to attending a Literature Festival, a Writing Weekend or a programme of Writing with other people, so how do you prepare for the event, and what do you do when you are there?
Assuming that you are going to a residential programme where you will be working through facilitated exercises [...]

For many of us when we start out as aspiring writers the goal is to see our name in print.  Yet for me and indeed for a lot of the authors I speak to each month, the real driver - that which motivates us to pick up a pencil or take hold of that keyboard [...]