Firstly, Happy New Year to you all and I hope you had a great Christmas. Doesn't it all seem like such a long time ago now? Anyway, here we are in January and the days are getting noticably longer.

I have to admit that I really do wonder what these authors who blog every week, not to mention those who blog every day, actually have to say. My life, like yours I expect, simply plods along. There are the occassional high points which are worth a mention, but they don't come every week!

However, one such is my first 5 star review for The Blue Horse . Many thanks Debbie Viscosi.

And another was a great 5 star review of The Red Grouse Tales from Grady Harp. Many thanks.

The Bat is proving to be extremely popular. So thanks to all of you who have added it to your reading lists. I hope you enjoy the tale.


At this time last year I had hoped to have my first novel, The Ghost Moth, just about finished. Unfortunately, things haven't worked out. I realised that I needed a bit of a rewrite of sections of it and as we are still, yes still, trying to move house, knew that I would not be able to give it the necessary concentration - trying to pull things together throughout the length of a book requires that one has to hold a lot in one's head - and so I have temporarily shelved it and concentrated on smaller tasks, such as finishing off The Blue Horse and continuing with another Red Grouse Tale called The Frog - more news in due course!

Thanks to you all for your continued support. As the Norwegian philosopher Arne Ness said, “The best aspect of a book is not the thoughts it contains, but the thoughts it unleashes,” so I hope my "Tales" continue to unleash your thoughts and keep you entertained.

The Little Dog
The Golden Tup
The Crow
The White Hart
The Red Grouse Tales
The Bat
The Blue Horse