Author

I’ve done a lot of writing (books, poems, articles, non-fiction). I also did a BA and an MA in writing. Part of the trouble with doing those degrees is that you have to research the market, and in doing so, I realised that there is no market for books now. Despite this I’d already stuck several books on the internet, self-publishing. I have great reservations about self-publishing now. I have left one book on Amazon which is the three “Wolfhound” action novels in one volume, just by way of a token of thanks for the people who liked that series.

I do now feel that self-publishing is actually vanity publishing by a different name.

At the moment I am taking a break from writing and if I start again I feel like I may use a different name than my own. However, think the life has been sucked out of publishing your own work on the internet. At one time I was glad to get it out there, now I wonder what the point of it is. I might just write for myself and never publish again.

I did once put quite a lot of work on ABC tales and on this website but I really don’t know why… dopamine hits? Or just to have AI scape it all off? Certainly, the giant online slush pile is not reduced for the lack of my stuff.

Some free to read writing:

Caffeinated in Woolwich – non-fiction

High Princess – fiction (sci-fi/fantasy)

In the Footsteps of-Lawrence of Alexandria – non-fiction

Egypt 2010: following Lawrence Durrell to Alexandria – non-fiction