It would be nice if some authors really did have a good old think when naming their characters.
Here, by my foot, as I type, is a terribly thrilling thriller named Land of the Living, by Nicci French. I think it came free with a magazine - I do hope so, as I have absolutely no […]
I was stranded in a café without a book earlier this week. I was considering expiring from boredom when I remembered the large black notebook and biro in my bag. So I duly fished them out and wrote (what? Oh, stuff, you know. I think it included a shopping list, possible names for assorted minor […]
I had a day off work this week. One ought to make something worthwhile of such bonuses. I wanted to write an erudite and no doubt lengthy essay about terror, horror, anxiety, Dracula, Lovecraft, MR James, Stephen King and Dr Who with mine, but I am once more suffering from Writer’s Block [a form of […]
Actually, if you don’t mind, I’ll finish this one next week.
I have been less sprightly and in-the-pink of late than I would have wished. So I am now Officially Eating Healthily and, terrifyingly, Cutting Down on Coffee. Today’s caffeine intake amounts to one (1) cup of tea. Oh, and decaff filter stuff. But decaff not only does not count as coffee, it anti-counts, I swear. […]
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