Romeo and Juliet Fans Read Silence…

…I hope. Well, it’s safe to say that someone took the book after I left it on a ledge next to Juliet’s balcony in Verona. Not sure whether the person who took it was a tourist (like me) or a member of staff of one of the many shops surrounding the balcony, or one of [...]

Riding the Twatter Wave, Tadpole Inspired Art and PhD Progression

I joined Twitter last week, Thursday, as mentioned at the end of the last blog post. I had this idea that I wasn’t going to be micro-blogging every few minutes, like when I changed the TV channel or got a cup of tea. Well three days and 50 tweets later I realised how easy it [...]

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 [...]

I’m a Google common search term!

Searching my name on Google is a little hobby as some readers may already know from a previous post where I mentioned this. I recommend to anyone who has even the slightest web presence to try it out (unless you have an exceedingly common name in which case it’s likely to be tedious as you [...]

Taking The Tap Water Challenge

This Volvic challenge (if you haven’t seen the adverts click here for the full glory of it) says that if you drink 1.5 litres of water per day for 14 days then you’ll feel a lot better. Now, I drink a lot of water already, generally in half pint glasses, so ‘better’ might not be [...]

Random Allocations and Lesbian History Month

I was doing a pipl search for myself (yes I am that egotistical and perhaps paranoid as well) and saw a nice variety of references to me, not all from me, including the Guardian, Struggling Authors, Meet the Author and Queer Cymru (although the information they have about my current job is out of date [...]

Patient Engages in Writing Behaviour

I’ve been ill for a week now with something that started off as a simple cough and cold and turned out to be lesbian flu again. For those who don’t know, lesbian flu is a very rare mutation and has a worse prognosis than man flu, resulting in the patient almost dying. Of course I [...]

Sony E-Reader from Waterstone’s Exchanged

In case anyone else got a Sony E-Reader for Christmas like I did, check the reset button! Mine didn’t work and it was stuck on one screen from Saturday until yesterday when I took it back to Waterstone’s.
Fair play to the store, they swapped it with no quibble. I didn’t ask for the money back [...]

Update on Northern Rock – complain and your rate will be cut

As Northern Rock mortgage holders, it is imperative these rate cuts are passed on. For those of us who are in financial difficulty and are unable to switch mortgages, it is immoral and obscene that the company owned by the government is the one with the highest rates and most reluctant to pass on rate [...]

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 [...]