Is there a more wonderful feeling than relaxing in a comfortable chair nursing a cup of warm tea holding open a book you’re really enjoying knowing you’ve got a nice hot bath running and a soft bed layered with fresh sheets waiting for you to climb into? Maybe later, after another half-hour’s read in bed,…
Tag: humour
Hell Is… The Fiction Genre Minefield
Nothing drives me crazier than fiction genres. Establishing the correct pigeon-hole for my own work is hard enough, but trawling through the minefield of genres attached to books I want to read is more complex than visiting eight cities in a single day, I imagine – not that I’ve ever tried it. I’ll tell you…
Life Is One Big Surprise, Danger Can Make You Strong, Always Shock Your Mother
WARNING: Doing the unexpected can seriously improve your health. Life Is One Big Surprise A quick, fun story to put a bit of pep into your day. Don Cloud was on his way to the supermarket. His wife, Rita, had given him a list: bread, butter, long-life milk (the basics); plain flour, self-raising agent (for…
I Know How To Steal Your Time & Make You Stressed
Douglas Adams used to take long baths. Haruki Murakami swims fifteen hundred metres. Kurt Vonnegut drank Scotch and did sit-ups. (Bizarrely, they all involve liquid.) One day I said to myself, you’re a writer now, so what do you do to prepare? And I realised I drive. My mode of transport is an old, tatty…
Because You’re A Rebel: Why I Made This Book For You
Office work sucks. At least it can. Do you ever wonder what it might be like to just not turn up? Yeah, I know the feeling. I can also guess the answer: Who would pay the bills? Who would feed the kids? Who? Who? Who? You want so desperately to break free, to rebel, to…
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