A big thank you to all those who have read and rated my books, particularly to those who have taken the time to write a review. It can be hard work getting any kind of traction in the book market,…
Naming a character is the author’s act of creation, of giving a soul to a concept born from the ‘DNA’ made of a chain of her words. Introduction Characters can’t breathe until they have a name that you believe in,…
I have today designed a new icon for my website. It is based around the O-O in my 2nd surname (Brooker) which are looped together in my favourite font that I use on book covers and webpage headers. Hopefully, it…
Here is a short story dug out from my archives. Enjoy! Knock. Knock. Knock. Jack Mallard waited to hear the “Come in”, pushed open the door and entered the office of Hilary Bennett, MD. After brief introductions he took the…
If you write, then you deserve credit. Every word counts. So do you.
What are the advantages of writing in either 1st or 3rd person perspectives and should we be able to use either when we want or even switch between perspectives within a story? What do we mean by ‘perspective’ in a…
This is a poem written about the final hours of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) who was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. He became well known for his service in the…
All sex scenes in creative literature are fantasy! As writers, we are not here to offer our readers boring encounters. Who on Earth needs that? We have to engage imagination and passion. Pump up the excitement. Guild it with magical romance. This…
The horror! Okay, so I detonated a data H Bomb (B for Blog Bomb?) on my blog pages and eradicated them from the whole of space and time. This is just to let you know that I am now rebuidng…