My work in progress novel, Somewhere In Between, is a romance set over a series of beginners meditation classes and (slight spoiler alert), towards the end of act 2, the…
This post containers spoilers for Love - but the show is over 5 years old so it feels like a legitimate move. Also slight spoilers for three other Judd Apatow…
I was at Dymocks bookshop in Brisbane CBD last weekend, searching for comp titles for my work in progress novel (currently called Love and Distraction but likely to be renamed…
I've never published any of my own work, so I’m in no position to give any form of writing advice to anyone. And completely ignoring my lack of qualifications to…
Romance has two strict genre rules. Firstly, the love story must be central to the story. Although there can be interweaving subplots, the story is about the protagonists and their…
Recently, I’ve been in the doubtful doldrums with my writing. Previously eloquent passages seem flat, and my light turn of phrase now turns my stomach. Happily, my wife bought me…
My favourite books of all time. These 200 books would be worth anyone's time to read. It's personal: it's just my opinion and my only qualification to write this list…
Here are five books that I read when I started to write seriously. They are all superb in their own way. I won’t say that these books saved my life,…
Up till now, my first draft has been housed within a single Microsoft Word document - all sixteen thousand words of it. MS Word has served me well enough thus…