The Ink that made me

Every hero (and writer) has an origin story, here is mine… I tell people that my aspirations for becoming a writer began when I heard my teacher read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis to the class. That story got me into reading and wanting to write. It makes for […]

The Miraculous Resurgence of Books

Clearly, books are not dead. Nor has the book apocalypse (bookopalypse?) taken place as predicted when ebooks started popping as PDFs, ePubs and .Mobi files. If anything, book sales are experiencing a healthy upswing again. The only people that seem to be reading ebooks is Gen-Xers like me. According to Nielsen Book Data (2022), 80% […]

Is there time to re-read books?

I’ve been working hard for the past five years to complete my PhD whilst working part-time and volunteering once a week. I have a family that makes demands of my time. Fitting in reading for pleasure is way down in that priority list. So when I do read these days it’s got to be good. […]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Beloved readers, subscribers and my handful of fans. If you are celebrating Christmas than I hope you have a really good one, surrounded by the love of your families and friends. If you are not, then I pray you to are spending the holidays with loved ones and are enjoying the many wonderful works of […]

Its the Season to be Spooky, Fa La La La Argh!

If you’re thinking that I’m not really the Halloween type, then you would be right. The origins of Halloween lie in the creepy pre-Christianity past of Britain, though its also celebrated as All-Hallows Eve. But then I’m a Muslim, so it doesn’t make a difference to me one way or another (…I’m gonna find ya, […]

Reader Focus Group Session: 19th May 2011

As a part of my writing process I like to get some test readers to give me their views on what they think about a story, so I asked Janine Maclean, Head of Media Studies at Marsden Heights Community College to recruit a number of her students to help me out. They were given the […]