In our house, blaming the internet for a host of  ills is a competitive sport and  The Northern Light and I  are rather good at it  Privacy and freedom, or the erosion of them, are the main accusations we make of the world wide web and it does seem sometimes that the whole thing was created to…

One of the most annoying things in my life is that I can’t do two things at once! I can’t comfortably do them in tandem either! Which is my way of saying I can’t do one thing in the morning, another in the afternoon and return to the first thing the following day. I’d love to call it…

A friend of mine’s father – a well known and successful actor – advised his son to steer clear of the theatre as a profession and set his sights on something less … uncertain.  Needless to say my friend ignored his father’s advice and became a theatre director. I can’t say I advised my own brood not to…

I’ve cranked myself up to write another Hawk book.  It’ll be the seventh in the Nathan Hawk Murder Mysteries and an element of it will involve a small ‘coven’ of modern ‘witches’. I use quotation marks because these characters will turn out to be the vain, fashionable, hobbyist kind of witches – a million miles from the real…

I have writer friends who, more than occasionally re-read books they’ve published or, worse still in my opinion, watch stuff they’ve written for television whenever it’s repeated. I do neither. When a project is finished, filmed or published, I let it go and move on to somethong new. To hark back, to revisit the past, is a bid…

Last year I inherited some money from an old friend, someone who wouldn’t have wanted me to stick it in the family pot and watch it disappear into thin air. So, I decided to ‘do something’ with it… That ‘something’ was to revamp all my novels.  Under the careful eye of Quartermain Press I asked Spiffing Covers to…