I’ve now written 20,000 words in Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, and I’ve barely got started. I’m in chapter 4, and we’ve just had the second murder. The tension is ramping up, and we now have jeopardy. I have a working title, The Favourite Murder. It’ll...

My last post concerned a trainee pilot who packed his bags and flew back to the UK after getting lost on a solo cross country. Panic had taken hold of him. A few days later I was flying a solo cross country when I experienced something similar. I’d had a bit of a...

I was flying over Florida, some days after my first solo. I was flying Six India Oscar, another Cessna 152. The weather as usual was clear and sunny. You’d think it was hard to get lost. Florida is a fairly easy place to navigate in a an aeroplane. Apart from TV...

That’s me in the photograph standing next to Seven Zulu Yankee, the Cessna 152 that I flew my first solo in. The airfield was Fort Pierce on the east coast of Florida. According to my logbook that was on 31st May 1989. I said in my last post, autopilot, that I could...

We had our weekly dancing lesson this morning. Our instructor, Joanna, is working on my ballroom frame (at our request I should add). Chest out! Shoulder blades together! Shoulders down! Elbows up! Knees bent! Look left! Believe it or not you’re supposed to remember...

There was something that I forgot to mention in my last post. I was writing about the CWA interview on the publishing revolution and hybrid authors. Barry said that it takes time to build up a career in writing. I’m not sure what he meant by that. It implies...

The CWA hosted a clinic last night titled, Publishing Revolution: The New Hybrid Author. The experts were J.D Kirk and Melissa Addey. J.D. Kirk is the nom de plume for his DCI Jack Logan crime novels set around his home in Scotland. His name is actually Barry...

I’ve now written 20,000 words in Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, and I’ve barely got started. I’m in chapter 4, and we’ve just had the second murder. The tension is ramping up, and we now have jeopardy. I have a working title, The Favourite Murder. It’ll...

My last post concerned a trainee pilot who packed his bags and flew back to the UK after getting lost on a solo cross country. Panic had taken hold of him. A few days later I was flying a solo cross country when I experienced something similar. I’d had a bit of a...

I was flying over Florida, some days after my first solo. I was flying Six India Oscar, another Cessna 152. The weather as usual was clear and sunny. You’d think it was hard to get lost. Florida is a fairly easy place to navigate in a an aeroplane. Apart from TV...

That’s me in the photograph standing next to Seven Zulu Yankee, the Cessna 152 that I flew my first solo in. The airfield was Fort Pierce on the east coast of Florida. According to my logbook that was on 31st May 1989. I said in my last post, autopilot, that I could...

We had our weekly dancing lesson this morning. Our instructor, Joanna, is working on my ballroom frame (at our request I should add). Chest out! Shoulder blades together! Shoulders down! Elbows up! Knees bent! Look left! Believe it or not you’re supposed to remember...

There was something that I forgot to mention in my last post. I was writing about the CWA interview on the publishing revolution and hybrid authors. Barry said that it takes time to build up a career in writing. I’m not sure what he meant by that. It implies...

The CWA hosted a clinic last night titled, Publishing Revolution: The New Hybrid Author. The experts were J.D Kirk and Melissa Addey. J.D. Kirk is the nom de plume for his DCI Jack Logan crime novels set around his home in Scotland. His name is actually Barry...