News from the Microcosm

I read other books. I'm currently learning Arabic and doing a course on advanced nursing and I still find time to read fiction and write...

Lamia, or the Dark Tower Drostan mab Lear, bard, wanderer and ladies' man, leaves the castle of his married lover before dawn and tak...

Still reading Dwight V Swain Techniques of the Selling Writer . When he's talking about a satisfying story resolution he says that the r...

You will be familiar with my ongoing fascination with the wisdom of writing gurus who want to help you write better. First it was Blake Snyd...

I wrote a new story! But I also repackaged  The Exorcist  and  The Golem.  I've taken the individual stories off the market beca...

So this one was in response to people saying my previous ghost stories weren't scary enough. By that some of them clearly meant we...

Tried to update Scrivener but I got an error message: "Installation and runtime mismatch" Said that where I had installed Sc...