Facebook Friends and Profile Hacking
Brian Feinblum gave me some book publicity coaching last year. He asked me how many facebook friends I had, to which my reply was around twenty. “That’s hopeless, you need thousands’, he replied. He also gave me some tips on how to achieve that, which I have been...
Wordle Strategy
Claire and I start most days with the New York Times Wordle puzzle. Then we move onto Quordle. Finally, after completing Sudoku, I feel my brain is ready for writing or researching. Judging by my facebook friends, Wordle is very popular. I post my results and then my...
Easter, Oak, Golf, and the Garden
My last post concerning oak was way back on 5th September last year. That post was inspired by the oak we had bought to replace the rotten legs on our garden swing. Naturally the swing in question is a bench type of swing, not the children’s playground variety....
Research and Spinning a Good Yarn
I enjoy spinning a good yarn, particularly my Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Because I write historical fiction, my research must be thorough. In the latest book, Called to Account, I have been very thorough with my medical research. I wont give you any spoilers, but...
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGBT, and Me
Many of my author friends on facebook have experimented with ChatGBT. Their results have been very impressive. The stories they’ve asked it to write, have been convincing and entertaining. It’s difficult to perceive that they’ve been written by a machine. The only...
Red Herrings April 2023 – Exorcism and Dyslexia
It’s always a joy when Red Herrings, the CWA bulletin, flops through the letterbox. There are two articles which drew my attention in this issue. Liz Mistry tells us how writing can be a form of exorcism, exploring our mental demons, and purging them. Certainly I...
Revolutionary Global Drug
What is this revolutionary global drug? I wrote recently about our visit to Oxford and the botanic garden. We also enjoyed a coffee in the Queen’s Lane Coffee House, which is reputed to be the longest established coffee house in Europe. Established in 1654 is written...
Oxford Botanic Garden, Jews, & Flowers
We visited Oxford yesterday, for a Floreat Aula Legacy Society dinner at my old college, St Edmund Hall. Because we couldn’t check into our room until the afternoon, we visited the botanic garden. I’d never visited the botanical garden before. I suppose, as a student,...
Writing Blunders
I’m enjoying Julia Pardoe’s biography of Marie de Medici very much. Please don’t think that I’ve found any writing blunders in her work, it seems remarkably well researched. Readers of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures may be interested to know who officiated at...
Facebook Friends and Profile Hacking
Brian Feinblum gave me some book publicity coaching last year. He asked me how many facebook friends I had, to which my reply was around twenty. “That’s hopeless, you need thousands’, he replied. He also gave me some tips on how to achieve that, which I have been...
Wordle Strategy
Claire and I start most days with the New York Times Wordle puzzle. Then we move onto Quordle. Finally, after completing Sudoku, I feel my brain is ready for writing or researching. Judging by my facebook friends, Wordle is very popular. I post my results and then my...
Easter, Oak, Golf, and the Garden
My last post concerning oak was way back on 5th September last year. That post was inspired by the oak we had bought to replace the rotten legs on our garden swing. Naturally the swing in question is a bench type of swing, not the children’s playground variety....
Research and Spinning a Good Yarn
I enjoy spinning a good yarn, particularly my Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. Because I write historical fiction, my research must be thorough. In the latest book, Called to Account, I have been very thorough with my medical research. I wont give you any spoilers, but...
Artificial Intelligence, ChatGBT, and Me
Many of my author friends on facebook have experimented with ChatGBT. Their results have been very impressive. The stories they’ve asked it to write, have been convincing and entertaining. It’s difficult to perceive that they’ve been written by a machine. The only...
Red Herrings April 2023 – Exorcism and Dyslexia
It’s always a joy when Red Herrings, the CWA bulletin, flops through the letterbox. There are two articles which drew my attention in this issue. Liz Mistry tells us how writing can be a form of exorcism, exploring our mental demons, and purging them. Certainly I...
Revolutionary Global Drug
What is this revolutionary global drug? I wrote recently about our visit to Oxford and the botanic garden. We also enjoyed a coffee in the Queen’s Lane Coffee House, which is reputed to be the longest established coffee house in Europe. Established in 1654 is written...
Oxford Botanic Garden, Jews, & Flowers
We visited Oxford yesterday, for a Floreat Aula Legacy Society dinner at my old college, St Edmund Hall. Because we couldn’t check into our room until the afternoon, we visited the botanic garden. I’d never visited the botanical garden before. I suppose, as a student,...
Writing Blunders
I’m enjoying Julia Pardoe’s biography of Marie de Medici very much. Please don’t think that I’ve found any writing blunders in her work, it seems remarkably well researched. Readers of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures may be interested to know who officiated at...