Category: Notes

I read a short extract from a future book yesterday at the Geneva Writers’ Group. It was well received although some people were concerned about how I handle paragraphs. Conventionally, apparently, each time someone speaks you have to start a new line.… Read more

I just created a new album entitled “Snapped” to display photos taken with my iPhone. The idea being to catch magic moments or unexpected perspectives that might normally go unnoticed.

Go to the Snapped Gallery

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As I move forward into the next chapter of the fourth book of The Storyteller’s Quest, the light changes from red and gray to a sparkling gold. The heavy burden of enforced inaction and despair falls away and the sun comes out.… Read more

I have completely restructured the material of the Secret Paths web site as four interrelated blogs with a gallery, an online store and a newsletter. The only part of the site that is not in the form of a WordPress blog is the home page above.… Read more

Now that’s a sight I like to see! Someone promoting my book!

And don’t ask me why WordPress likes to rotate vertical images setting people on their sides … If you don’t understand what I mean, trying clicking on the picture above.… Read more

If you want to keep up to date on books published by Secret Paths or those that are in the works, you can subscribe to the new Secret Paths Newsletter which is hosted by Facilitate.org. Click here to subscribe or use the “Newsletter” link in the menu above.… Read more

I have set up a new blog using all the short texts I have written about books I’ve read. I am going to add a full reference at the end of each text including the ISBN. At the moment I am writing the next contribution to that blog about Trudi Canavan’s book The Rogue.… Read more

Attended a meeting of the Geneva Writers’ Group yesterday. They meet in the Geneva Press Centre, a stone’s throw away from the UN building (see photo). It was my first time. More than a hundred people present. Amazing that there are so many English writers in the area.… Read more

I have begun work again on the fourth book of The Storyteller’s Quest. I had written some two chapters but put them aside to work on another book. Now, I have transferred all the existing material into Scrivener, which I am using for the first time, and I am re-working the plan of the whole book.… Read more