A Great School
“I saw a frog!” a girl or boy might say. So that day we would learn about frogs, and draw, or even make, frogs.
Ten Basic But Important Rules For Authors
1. Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free. Do all you can to keep yourself in a non-presumptive state that will lead to a feeling of pleasant surprise if a fellow human reads your book. 2. Don’t let people whose
Remembering A Very Special Cat (2001-2021)
Ralph
Extracts From My Notebooks
Subscribe now * You can listen to me reading this to you out loud here if you’d like to: * I’m extremely pro purchasing new notebooks but extremely anti wasting paper. It causes me to lead quite a turbulent life, full of internal conflict. Sure, sex is great but have
My Crowdependency Problem
Here we see a very, very normal morning scene in rural Devon, UK: a writer gets up, makes himself a coffee and finds a crow in his living room, striking theatrical poses and showing off to the less privileged birds who have to make do with living outside. You might
Edwin Starr's Redemptive Jellyfish Journey And How It Helped Him Learn To Be A Person Again
Subscribe now The big mistake people who’ve never had writer’s block usually make in their assumptions about writer's block is thinking that it must be about having no ideas. In truth, it’s nearly always about having too many. I’m not struck down with a
The Hagstone
a new short story
Can You Please Stop Telling Me To Live My Best Life Please
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
The Reason Your Shampoo Wants You to Use More Shampoo is Because That Means You Will Buy More of Your Shampoo
An extract from my upcoming third novel, Everything Will Swallow You
FINALLY!
At last the painful wait is over, and I can reveal Joe McLaren's brilliant cover design for my third novel. Everything Will Swallow You will be published on September 11th. Or, to put it another way, in just over two months. At one point, not long ago, I
France
Much has happened to me over this past week, but perhaps the place to begin is that last Thursday afternoon I saved a French kitten’s life by grabbing it from between the jaws of a ravenous dog. That’s the part of the trip I just took to France
The Lost Place
In 2022, in the aftermath of the publication of my debut novel Villager, in a wild and impractical dust storm of inspiration, I had an idea for a podcast: a work of fiction, with only the most marginal grounding in reality. It would, I decided, take place in a psychedelic