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I had a blog post written yesterday, but it didn't really say what I wanted it to, so I threw it away. Then I wrote a new post centred on...

I do my best writing when I'm ill. Ok, that probably isn't true, but it feels that way. The thing is, when I'm not ill, when I'm really...

I drink a lot of coffee. I drink a lot more coffee than I used to do, nowadays, because my writing is more or less coffee-powered. I...

I had to fight myself not to title this post “What’s In A Name.” It’s the obvious title, after all: I want to talk about names and why...

Human beings love being scared. Ok, not all human beings. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who would happily go through...

I am a research addict. I really am, especially when I’m supposed to be writing. Given even the slightest provocation I will cast aside...

You can hear my far from mellifluous voice on Wizzi Magnussen's "The business of..." on Thursday the twenty-third of September at one pm...

I don’t have imposter syndrome. What I have is afraid I’m about to be pushed out of the airlock for being The Imposter syndrome. I think...

At the start of the Discworld novel Sourcery, Sir Terry Pratchett observed: "This book does not contain a map. Please feel free to draw...

A couple of years ago I was sitting with my friend Colette, drinking coffee and waiting for our identically-named daughters to finish...