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Category Archive: What’s Going On

Snippets from my life as a writer...

Dec 18 2008

December 18th, 2008

Two weeks till the release of What Time Devours and reviews are starting to crop up online. Have finished the new novel, whose working title is The Tears of the Jaguar and got an enthusiastic thumbs-up from my agent so I’ll be looking to sell that in the new year. Hopefully by then What Time …

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Oct 29 2008

October 29th, 2008

Yes, yes, I know, my uselessness at updating this continues apace. As usual, of course, I have the excuse of having been actually writing, among other things including a brace of writer’s conferences, most recent in Myrtle Beach SC where I got to raise a few glasses with Jim Born and Michael Connelly among many …

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Jul 22 2008

July 22nd, 2008

OK, so even by my pathetic standards it’s been a LONG time since I updated this. There are, however, reasons, and silence does not equal inactivity. Quite the contrary. Apart from various academic projects, including my up-coming book on the performance history of Julius Caesar and several papers for conferences and the like, I have …

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Feb 29 2008

February 29th, 2008

The SC book festival was a blast. Got to spend some time with some fun folk: readers, writers, booksellers, organizers. Good time. And my new sat nav system got me there no problem (and to the zoo on the way back) so I’ll now be able to write about such things and know what I’m …

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Feb 01 2008

February 1st, 2008

Man, I’m bad at this. I occasionally follow a link to an author’s site and it really is embarrassing to see how everyone else is constantly updating the blogs with pithy little entries about life, the universe and everything. Still, I do wonder how they ever get any other writing done. I can at least …

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