Someone once told me it was good policy to enter as many literary competitions as I could, because you never know if you might win. That philosophy also explains why I regularly spend £10 on the lottery, and rather like my approach to the lottery I forgot all about my entry once the manuscript has been despatched off into the ether of the internet.   Hence, when an e-mail popped up declaring that I had won a book award, for a moment I didn’t quite believe what I was reading.

Got plans for next weekend? Want to do some early Christmas shopping? Why not come to Tunbridge Wells? A delightful town in a salubrious part of Kent; wander around the Pantiles and pop into the Warwick Park Hotel for some early festive spirit and perhaps the odd Christmas bargain. You know you’ll feel good to get a start on your shopping, and once you’ve done that, come and find the book stand and we’ll have a chat!

When I retired from what, my mother would call ‘proper work’, I thought I was going to slowdown for a while. I decided to try my hand at writing a book. Not knowing whereto start really, I wrote a story about a good friend of mine. It took a while, but I enjoyed the process, took a writing course to get better at the art and embarked on a second book. That has since evolved into a series, which I hope I’m correct in saying we all love. One book a year; writing 15,000 words a

I’ve recently returned from a 2+ week holiday travelling through the Western part of Canada, and it was such an exhilarating experience I thought it worthy of a mention here, plus a photo. The main image is Lake Louise, where the water carries a turquoise colour; this is derived from ‘rock flour’, a fine powder created by the glaciers grinding the bedrocks into silt as they pass by. This rock flour is carried into the lake by meltwater and as the sunlight hits the particles i

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