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Okay, I'll admit it. My first book has only been out for a short time compared with others, so I'm still very much a newcomer to writing.

Even so, the reviews have been encouraging so far.

I use something called the Four Pillars to structure my chapters. Basically, it helps a writer identify the following, in order:

1. What emotion or emotions do you want the reader to experience?

2. What emotion does the narrator experience? There are good reasons for this to differ from number one. For...

Have you ever watched the second movie in a series and thought, “That was actually really good, but I still feel a little underwhelmed”? Or have you ever finished the second book in a series, after being completely blown away by the first, only to feel like it was just more of the same? A little bit... bleh.

Well, same. But instead of picking apart what other people may have done wrong, let’s use a food analogy — because, honestly, why not?

Take breakfast. Not the lovely weekend kind, but the...

Yesterday, I had a pleasent surprise in my Inbox: LoveReading came back to me with their Review of Parallel Recollections.

At this point, I was already making good progress - with all 5* Reviews on Amazon and GoodReads. But this hit differently, and humbled me completely.

For a Veteran book Ambassador to say this about my first Novel - I would take this little victory thank you very much!

A child witness to a terrible incident, a freak event connects two people and the search to stop a...

You see, depending on your point of view, English may be a Language first and foremost. People who speak it in other countries may very well associate the word with how they speak. You may hear people say, ‘I am English.’ When they actually mean they are an English peaking South African for example. Someone in the Congo may refer to themselves as being French.

Other people in different countries, may use the word in the sense of someone being from England. ‘The English.’ But for people living...

It has been one month since Parallel Recollections first appeared. When I published it, I knew writing the book had been hard. What I did not yet know was that finishing it was only the first step. I had reached the point where every further edit seemed to make it worse, so I took the plunge and put it on Amazon as a self-published work.

There's a saying: before you can enjoy the view, you have to climb the mountain. Well, let me tell you, boy, when you try to launch your own book, that...