Category: Blog

I’m working a lot now, more than 40 hours a week. The routine of this reminds me of my older teens, which was probably the last time I was actually out at work for such long periods of time every day. At the age of 17, I lived in a shared house with four friends.…

This is my new first thing in the morning routine. The sound file takes a few minutes to upload, so blogging happens in that time. When I remember to do it, which I didn’t, yesterday. I’m meant to do all of this before I even go downstairs: it’s all set up by my bed to…

Well, it’s been a while! I haven’t been doing nothing, I’ve been working for someone else and generally enjoying myself. But I’ve reached a point with that now that I finally have the headspace – I hope – to be able to do both. Work on the book: work for the boss. I’ve just recorded…

It’s not one I’ve read before, at least, not in a relaxed, “Oh! I wonder what this is about,” kind of way. I have, previously and several times over, dissected it in that clinical way you have to for GCSEs and A levels, which completely puts you off the whole thing. (Does me, anyway.) But…

Ten days before Christmas and the panic sets in. Is the house clean? No, but it will be as clean as it’s getting after today. Are the gifts bought and wrapped? No! About 10% are bought and none are wrapped, but some will be after today. Christmas dinner? Nope. I’ll be cooking turkey and all…

We are struggling so much to get the Audiobook published. The sound files have been checked and accepted and there just seems to be a major glitch, now, with the cover art! I’m struggling to understand it because we seem to meet all of the technical requirements with our image file, and yet it’s not…

Having cheerfully said here yesterday that I don’t think many people were reading this blog, I then – later on, looking for something unrelated – accidentally happened upon my reader stats, which I didn’t even know I was collecting. Okay. You’re reading. Hmmm. But should that change anything about how I write here? I hope…

I don’t think many people are reading it – I’m not pushing it as hard as everything else – so I feel like I can just say what’s on my mind. Everything else: the Tiktok, the X, the Facebook, the reels, the shorts, the stories… is all quite sanitised. But here, I can grumble and…

I’ve spent far too many hours trying to persuade this site to automatically add a default image, for when I post links from it to social media. Couldn’t find it, couldn’t find it, couldn’t do it. Thought it must be me. I built a few WordPress blogs about 10-15 years ago and back then it…

Argh, I’m a writer, not a marketer. I want to write, but instead I’m reading articles and watching videos on how to sell stuff, so I can sell even more copies of book 1, which I published last month. My videos are improving every day, but I’m realising I need to spend more and more…