I’ve spent a couple of days holding back from this post. People close to me already know my thoughts and everybody else can probably live comfortably without knowing. But there are a few things I feel the need to say. I wrote a piece a couple of years ago about my changing engagement with politics. I touched on something which has become extremely relevant this week; Here’s the thing; I dislike Thatcher. As I’ve made clear again and again, I grew …

Last time I waxed lengthy-like about some of the issues that spring from the setting I choose to write in. These are the things that you can’t ignore. They might not be the story you first set out to tell, but if you pick a setting and then ignore that settings voice, you’re going to fail. This time I wanted to talk about what first set me writing the book. And I better give out a trigger warning, just in case. “Some …

A little bit of bidness. My second crime novel Runaway Town is out now. You already knew that, right? Did you know that the song of the same title is also out now? For Old Gold I released a Spotify playlist that acted as a soundtrack to the book. I’ll be doing the same for book 2, but I wanted to try something else. I even tried writing a song myself, but I’m so many years past being a song-writer that I don’t think that skill …