Launch date is getting closer – and as this is not only Book 1 of the Maingard Chronicles, but Book 1 of my career, I am ‘Tom Cruise jump up and down on Oprah’s sofa’ kind of excited. But also…

S. M. Wilson Usborne Publishing 2018 I was a little perturbed when I discovered the local bookclub that I had just joined had chosen a YA novel as its first book. After all, it has been nigh on 35 years…

“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Mother died today. So starts Albert Camus’s “L’Etranger“, and also this post. Except it wasn’t today but 24th November 2020, and this is only the second time since that I’ve acknowledged it. I hadn’t even acknowledged…

A look at creating the world of Maingard All authors need to breathe life into their characters, build the narrative and piece together the plot into (hopefully) something coherent and exciting. At some point though, that author needs to world…

(Reprinted from theelvenscroll – originally from May 2020) The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain are a very interesting set of magical items written down in late medieval Welsh literature. Interesting, in that only one is a weapon, whilst…

The Demons Within is in the submissions stage which, to a new writer, seems to be a long, labourious process. A process for someone with some patience. So far I have sent about a dozen but it can take up…

A long time ago, in a land far, far away, I was introduced to a whole universe of magical worlds, the creation of countless authors and scribes throughout the years. After wasted years of pondering and procrastinating, I am aiming…