Credit Crunch Munchies

Due to escalating food prices, I’ve decided to start a new brand of baked goods. Credit Crunch Biscuits will be crunchy but contain no flour, eggs sugar or fat and will probably be made with gravel and cockroaches. Credit Crunch cereal is a bowl of wood shavings with used staples to add zest.
After disembowelling the [...]

Announcing… My Agent!

It’s been on the cards for a while, but I didn’t want to say anything until I’d signed, sealed and delivered the agreement. Yes folks, I now have an agent. Judith Antell of The Antell Agency is representing me for literary works, drama and journalism, foreign rights etc. etc.
As usual I did the Josie thing [...]

Photos from Newport

As you can see from this picture, Silence is now in the three-for-two promotion in Waterstone’s.
Newport was great, and I’ve left a batch of signed copies there so anyone who missed it can still pick one up.
Here I am at my signing table with borrowed pen – this was the last of three signings related [...]

‘Hounded Out’ Another Tabloiding

Regular blog readers will remember I mentioned that a Wales on Sunday journalist spoke to me at the book signing I did in Newport Waterstones. He interviewed me earlier this week and this is the result.
Some of it is taken from the previous article in The Sunday Mercury but there is more focus on the [...]

Iced Coffee’s at Costa

A sign up in my local Costa Coffee shop: Iced Coffee’s Now Available. Apart from the fact that iced coffee=gak, I am appalled again. Iced Coffee’s what? I ask. Iced Coffee’s mug? Iced Coffee’s book prize? Seems like we have lost the high street shops that for years abused the poor apostrophe, only to be [...]