Event – and Giveaway!

15 Jul 2022

A quick update to let everyone know I'll be taking part in a Facebook launch party on Sunday. The event is to celebrate the release of Alex J Adams' new…

Read Around the Rainbow: Setting Books where you Live

24 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

I chose the topic for this month’s webring blogpost, but oddly I tend not to set books in the place I currently live. I’m not sure why that is, but…

Read around the Rainbow: Weird Research

29 Apr 202229 Apr 2022

When this topic was first suggested, I wasn’t sure I could write about it. Most of my books are contemporary, with backdrops that I’m reasonably familiar with (archaeology, old buildings)…

Two years of self-publishing

2 Feb 20222 Feb 2022

It's hard to believe that it's two whole years since I self-published my first book - but Echoes of Blood is exactly two years old today. My dark-themed, m/m vampire…

Even goats have statues…

4 Feb 2021

I've been hunting high and low for this photograph for simply ages. Although the original was a print made from 35mm film, I knew I'd scanned it but it didn't…

Blue plaque for Helen Forrester

23 Feb 2020

I was pleased to see that Liverpool author Helen Forrester (real name June Bhatia) has been honoured with a blue plaque on the house she lived in as a child.…

New listing for Liverpool landmark

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

I was delighted to see the news that Liverpool's Philharmonic Dining Rooms, more usually known as the Philharmonic pub or even just "the Phil", has been awarded Grade I Listing…

Coming soon: Echoes of Blood

1 Feb 20201 Feb 2020

I haven't blogged much about my writing recently, but that doesn't mean I haven't been beavering away quietly in the background. In fact, in the last few weeks I've finished…

Friday Five – daft birds

6 Oct 20176 Oct 2017

Birds can be really difficult to take good photographs of - just as you click the shutter they move, squawk, waddle away or fly off. But over the years I've…

Liverpool trip

3 Jun 20173 Jun 2017

Although I'm originally from Liverpool, I hadn't been back for over twenty years, ever since a disastrous visit in about 1995 when the streets were piled with filth and everything…