After 30+ years with the same employer I am taking early retirement. My last day in the job will be at the end of March 2023. It is a momentous step to take, but I believe that it will be the right one
Dune by Frank Herbert
I stumbled onto Frank Herbert’s novel when I was a teenager. I remember that it was a paperback book with a rather garish image of what looked to be a Bedouin man with vibrant blue eyes, which seemed to be rather strange for a work of science fiction. Despite the incongruous depiction I bought and read the book
Green Football Weekend 2023
I am simply going to say that I would rather football, once a social sport, dealt with matters like poverty, which impact directly on the communities in which football clubs are based, than a subject that many connected with the game appear to know very little about
Happy Writing: The Loneliness of the Writer
Writing can be a lonely occupation. I have never worked with someone else but I think that if I did then it would be remotely. Like many people who write, I have my preferences and they do not include having other people around me at the time. In fact, I have a strong attachment to the solitude that comes with being a writer
The Devil Within Us
Originally, I had intended the British Agent, Doc Hunter who appeared in my previous novel ‘Eugenica’, as the protagonist, but the more I wrote about Artemisia the more she pushed herself to the front. In the end, being a gentleman, I let her have her way.
Pomerania 8
The book is developing well, over 22,000 words written so far, but I am working in what I can only call a freeform style. I have a series of ideas that I want to write and a number of themes that I am going to explore, but at the moment there is no real plot.
The Queen of the Mountain Kingdom
The main story is simple, the King is dying, and his only heir is the Princess, but women cannot hold authority over men in the Kingdom of Oroson. It is not a clear-cut tale of good versus evil.
Happy Writing: The Curse of Inspiration
When I was trying to relax, a new idea for another story just played out in my mind! I would describe it as something like watching a short clip of an up and coming movie! The imagery was clearly defined, as were the relationships of three characters, the setting that they found themselves in, and, most surprisingly, the landscape of the immediate story itself.
Mesozoic
To begin with let me say that this book was always intended to be fun! Nothing more, nothing less
Pomerania 7
There is one key element that I have been seriously considering because it asks some important questions and that is, what is the point of the story and how will it conclude?
Peter C Whitaker 