Medgar Evers
I guess I should have heard of Medgar Evers. To my shame, I had not, but it’s never too late to learn. The Craft by John Dickie just keeps on delivering. Medgar Evans was a NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi. NAACP was the National Association for the Advancement of...
The Waiting Game
Today seems to be a day of waiting. I picked up my new phone yesterday and now I’m waiting for it to restore all the data from the cloud. You can probably tell from the photo why I needed a new phone. I made the mistake of having the old one in my back pocket, and...
Reunion
I’ve just returned from a reunion of the St Edmund Hall engineers class of 1979. Covid, or suspected Covid, left us two short. It always amazes me how we fit back together after forty-three years as if they had been a few weeks. Of course time and illness leaves a...
Intolerance
Intolerance is on my mind. I mentioned in my post connections that I’m reading The Craft by John Dickie. I will write a review in Readers Club when I’ve finished it. In the meantime, amongst the many things that have caught my attention, the first paragraph of chapter...
James Bond Day
Thanks to Alexander Armstrong on Classic FM, I have learnt that today 5th October is Global James Bond Day. Apparently this is because the first film in the franchise, Dr No was released on this day in 1962. The day became James Bond Day in 2012 to mark the 50th...
Strictly Writing
I love Strictly Come Dancing. It occurred to me that there are some similarities between dancing and writing. To start with there’s no telling in dancing. The story and emotion is all conveyed through showing, by movement and physical expression. Strictly is all about...
Called to Account – Progress Update
I’ve had a good Kirkus review for Called to Account (the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures) and decided to use that for the paperback back blurb. I’ve emailed it over to my cover designer Jacqueline, so I’ll soon be able to complete the preparation for...
Project Management of Writing
I find my old skills of project management and project sponsorship come in handy occasionally. I don’t have much call on them during the actual writing stage. Find it helpful to have a daily word count target, but that’s all. It’s the period between completion of the...
Check, Check, and Check Again
You can’t check too much. I received the editorial review from Love Reading of Called to Account the day before last. Called to Account is the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, due for publication on 8th November. They had some good things to say:...
Medgar Evers
I guess I should have heard of Medgar Evers. To my shame, I had not, but it’s never too late to learn. The Craft by John Dickie just keeps on delivering. Medgar Evans was a NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi. NAACP was the National Association for the Advancement of...
The Waiting Game
Today seems to be a day of waiting. I picked up my new phone yesterday and now I’m waiting for it to restore all the data from the cloud. You can probably tell from the photo why I needed a new phone. I made the mistake of having the old one in my back pocket, and...
Reunion
I’ve just returned from a reunion of the St Edmund Hall engineers class of 1979. Covid, or suspected Covid, left us two short. It always amazes me how we fit back together after forty-three years as if they had been a few weeks. Of course time and illness leaves a...
Intolerance
Intolerance is on my mind. I mentioned in my post connections that I’m reading The Craft by John Dickie. I will write a review in Readers Club when I’ve finished it. In the meantime, amongst the many things that have caught my attention, the first paragraph of chapter...
James Bond Day
Thanks to Alexander Armstrong on Classic FM, I have learnt that today 5th October is Global James Bond Day. Apparently this is because the first film in the franchise, Dr No was released on this day in 1962. The day became James Bond Day in 2012 to mark the 50th...
Strictly Writing
I love Strictly Come Dancing. It occurred to me that there are some similarities between dancing and writing. To start with there’s no telling in dancing. The story and emotion is all conveyed through showing, by movement and physical expression. Strictly is all about...
Called to Account – Progress Update
I’ve had a good Kirkus review for Called to Account (the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures) and decided to use that for the paperback back blurb. I’ve emailed it over to my cover designer Jacqueline, so I’ll soon be able to complete the preparation for...
Project Management of Writing
I find my old skills of project management and project sponsorship come in handy occasionally. I don’t have much call on them during the actual writing stage. Find it helpful to have a daily word count target, but that’s all. It’s the period between completion of the...
Check, Check, and Check Again
You can’t check too much. I received the editorial review from Love Reading of Called to Account the day before last. Called to Account is the fourth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, due for publication on 8th November. They had some good things to say:...