The author, his writing, photography and more
Beyond the facade of routine and the predictable, lies a rich country full of wonders just waiting to be explored. My writing and photography seek to grant access to that magical world.
Much of our view of the world is impoverished.… Read more
Nous venons de perdre une figure marquante de Saint-Blaise et de la scène artistique du canton et au-delà, l’artiste peintre Daniel Aeberli. Il était bien aimé et va beaucoup nous manquer.… Read more
One of the most important riches of our world lies not in cultivating familiarity, but in courting that which is different…
A central feature of the familiar is that it is reassuring. The well-known face that greets you as you enter your office building.… Read more
Approaching writing on the basis of accumulated experience rather than a set of rules such as grammar is natural for some people but can cause problems when confronted with an education system based on rules.
A person’s mental make-up constitutes a changing constellation of characteristics. These depict the workings of their mind, their behaviour, their relationship to others and their competences. Certain characteristics are considered superior because they render people better adapted to function in society.… Read more
He pressed forward through the throng driven to ask an urgent question, but doing so turned out to be much more of a challenge than he’d thought…. Read more of The Unanswered Question, a new Flash Fiction by Alan McCluskey.… Read more
There are so many things we don’t see, even when they are in plain sight. But deep under the conscious layers of our brain, we are ‘aware’ of them, although they are not necessarily brought to our waking attention. Such is the working of our brain that saves us much effort by filtering out the extraneous.… Read more
Three more of Secret Paths Editions novels are now available in hardcover versions, The Boy & Girl Saga: Boy & Girl (2012), In Search of Lost Girls (2014) and We Girls (2020). Only three more of the published books remain to be made available in hardcover copies, the first three books of The Storyteller’s Quest: The Reaches (2011), The Keeper’s Daughter (2011) and The Starless Square (2016).… Read more
The Boy in a Book, as the name suggests, is a novel about moving in and out of books and all the challenges that involves, not to mention having to handle the dangers that ill-intentioned adults represent. The following short exchange was inspired by the novel but is completely separate from it.… Read more
I’m progressively preparing the Secret Paths catalogue so all the books are also available on demand in hardback format. In the photo above, the first five. As I wrote elsewhere, I’m impressed by the texture and feel of the hardcover version.… Read more