Busy Half Term With The Boy (blogging for LGBT families)

One of the things I like about my new status of PhD student is the flexibility to stay at home (or actually not at home much!) with my son when it’s the school holiday. I don’t blog too much about The Boy as this is an author blog and I try to stick to publicity [...]

Bournemouth Uni on Wednesday

I’ll be in the Lawrence Lecture Theatre, Pool House, Bournemouth University at 14:00-16:00 on Wednesday afternoon 3rd December (the day after tomorrow). This is part of the Legend Press ReadGeneration campaign, whereby we travel around to various universities and give talks and have stalls to try to encourage the under-30’s to read fiction and to [...]

Thoughts On Reviews and Freedom of Speech

This month I’ve had some marvellous reviews of my book. One appeared in Writer’s Beat Quarterly which was very glowing. “…Silence is a powerful novel precisely because it is not afraid – or ashamed – to look life square in the face and report what it sees… The style is fluid and one is quickly [...]

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 [...]

This Publicity Animal

Interview in one80news
This article appeared in the 15th August edition on one80news, but as it’s based in Brighton and Hove, I didn’t get to pick up a copy and had to wait for it to be sent via snail mail. It is the result of a long phonecall interview I did earlier in August. I’m [...]

Silence Soundbites

The audio recording of my book launch is available now on my podcast, Casting Pods. To listen, click here. Also available is the transcript of the podcast, click here to read it. This includes a reading from the opening chapter, which I put at the end of the podcast.
I should be getting some extracts up [...]

The Book in my Hands!

Even though my legs are dropping off from walking along the parade at London Pride yesterday, I’m still ecstatic that I’ve got my book at last. I picked it up yesterday lunchtime when I met Tom for the Speakers’ Corner event (which I videoed and will be podcasting as soon as I have it edited). [...]