I made the grown-ups cry
My final author engagement of 2022 was an interview with the ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’ podcast. I didn’t intend to make Sarah Sharman and Daniel
December 31, 2022
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My final author engagement of 2022 was an interview with the ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’ podcast. I didn’t intend to make Sarah Sharman and Daniel
October has already delivered another fun first in my author career. A local book club had read Rockstar Ending, the first novel in my dystopian
It means a lot to me that I made it into the local newspaper in Southport, the town in the north west of England where
Appearing on numerous BBC radio stations over the past month seemed the most pandemic-friendly way to get the word out about the launch of Rockaway, the second book
What is your go-to source for news and information? The mainstream media is subject to criticism, some of it justified. However, highly trained investigative reporters
The third book in my dystopian the Rockstar Ending series, Rockaway is published at last! Huge thanks are due to the friends who have kept
Sometimes I think I only wrote the Rockstar Ending series as an excuse to commission cover illustrations from Tim Doyle. I had been a fan
I’m not sure which looks more scary – me or my book covers! My local council organized a book fair for authors at the weekend. The
Here’s a thought-provoking present for the reader in your life. Highly original, macabre and very funny – Richard Blair Speculative fiction at its best, thrilling
It was great fun to be invited to speak to students at Durham University about the progress I’ve made over the past few years in
Here I am reading from the Rockstar Ending series at the annual festival that takes place in my local park, Hilly Fields Fayre, an event
Where a maze of derelict warehouses and old cranes once testified to Britain’s decline, glass skyscrapers teeming with traders now dominate London’s docks, a metaphor
When I met Tracy Brabin MP, who has recently been elected Mayor of West Yorkshire, early in 2020, she gave me some uplifting personal advice.
My middle-aged heroine Lexi has had such a tough time in the last two books that I wanted to let her have a bit more
What does success look like for you? I hit another milestone this week when a local bookshop decided to put my debut novel in their
For a while now, I’ve been thinking about creating audiobooks of the Rockstar Ending series. As I love listening to books read by their author, I wanted to give
THANK YOU for making my 2020 momentous – in a nice way! 🤩📖 🙏 Two years ago, I was working in a demanding corporate job, harbouring
The new Rockstar Ending series book, ROCK ON is now available everywhere in ebook and paperback, including all Amazon stores. You’ll find all the links you could
The Fortean Times, legendary UK-based monthly magazine dedicated to all things weird, has reviewed Rockstar Ending in their ‘speculative and fantastic fiction’ section. Britain’s youth have
To celebrate her 68th birthday, satirical singer Dillie Keane wrote this ‘Song for Dominic Cummings’, the controversial adviser to Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister,
Here I am, in my favourite bookshop in the whole world, brandishing my signing pen and getting stuck into a pile of paperbacks that might seem familiar.
January 2020 marks seventy years since George Orwell – whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair – died. I took this picture last summer, at
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