A Dead Good Blog

I’ve written before about sitting down at my desk faced with a blank A4 piece of paper, pencil and rubber and no idea what to write about. A...

When I think of ‘Wonderland’, I plummet down a dark hole with Alice into a curious land of the small, the tall, talking animals, and other s...

Oh my fur and whiskers! I thought this was going to be a straight forward look back at the story through memories of my own family’s dog-ear...

Today - Boxing Day - is traditionally the date on which pantomimes (fun for all the family) commence. The convention doesn't strictly ap...

When this theme arose last year, I imagined a dessert island .  It was a good place to get stranded.  There was custard and, legend has i...

The arrival of October brings with it a familiar set of emotions for me as a writer. I remember the cold night nearly two years ago, when a ...