Writing is my craft. Whether it’s turning a phrase or twisting a plot, I have the skill to shape words and stories so that they thrill and delight.I have had several short stories published, including for Doctor Who Short Trips. I’ve also been part of numerous writing groups in different cities where I’ve lived. See my author page on Goodreads.
I also write articles for various websites and publications. These have included Threads and Hodderscape, The Glass journal of the Christian Literary Studies Group, the Western Mail newspaper, in addition to my own blog.
I’ve also worked as an SEO Marketing Consultant, working on content strategy and creation. I have extensive experience copywriting for book blurbs, publishing metadata, websites and social media. I’ve also delivered training in SEO for editors and content creators.
Blimey, this month is turning out to be busy! Here’s a few things that have happened, or are happening, or will happen in this merry month of November. Birthdays! I turned 23 yesterday, and Bev followed hot on my heels with her 23rd birthday today. So various celebratory activities and events have been in order, […]
Last year, I developed a renewed and profound appreciation of coffee while doing Nanowrimo. Let’s see how that works out this year! This year, the days fall so that November begins and finishes with a weekend, and there are 5 weekends in total, which is very handy since it means less working days and hence […]
After writing all 50,000 words of My Life as a Zombie Time Traveller in November last year as part of Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month), I’ve decided to attempt the same thing again this year. It won’t be an “official” Nanowrimo because I’m going to be attempting to finish the first draft of my novel […]
Fantasy writer L. B. Graham has some good comments on how Christian fiction is about mercy, not moralism (HT: Dave Bish): Christianity is not about moralism, and Christian fiction shouldn’t be either. Christianity revolves, not around good behavior, but around God’s mercy shown to man in the death and resurrection of Christ. However, even though […]
The latest edition of A Podcast of Impossible Things is a Big Finish special, looking in particular at Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed my Life. It includes interviews with some of the writers, including the overall winner Michael Coen, and me, of course, plus interviews with Simon Guerrier, editor of the collection and fan […]
I made the local paper! Last week, Michael Rees and I were photographed and interviewed about winning the Big Finish short story competition. You can read it on the Wales Online website.
Lawrence Miles observes in an interview how the novel has been been almost entirely replaced by the wannabe movie novelisation… Nobody really writes novels any more. What they write are films in novel form, everything’s staged as if it were happening through the lens of a camera, and obviously it’s a trend that’s been getting […]
Last week, I attended Contagious, a Christian youth camp, which I’ve been going on since I was 14 and I’m now a leader on. The theme this year was Spiritual Warfare. It’s one of those subjects that’s often happy hunting ground for weirdos: a subject much loved by eccentric televangelists and paranoid fruitcakes. So it […]
Last year, I entered a Doctor Who short story competition, and was one of the 25 winners whose tales of the Time Lord are being published in a collection later this year, published by Big Finish Productions, who also make very good Doctor Who audio dramas starring the actors for the classic series. And now, […]
In my gap between finishing at the cinema and starting my new job at the beginning of the week, I’ve been getting on with various bits of writing: Towards the end of January, I finished my rewrites on my Doctor Who short story that’s being published in the collection How the Doctor Changed My Life […]
