My new novel is published today! Jonty Greer is an irresponsible, impoverished jobbing actor catapulted into the fraught mindset of a rich man by a lottery win. Certain that money can deliver happiness and change, he strives to give his fortune a social conscience by funding what he views as life-changing theatre workshops, initially to […]
A few years ago, when I was the creative director of Buzzword Films and Turning Point Theatre Company, we were approached by Lancashire Social Services to create a training programme for agencies working in the field of child protection. After many productive visits to Lancashire to discuss the project, I came up with a programme to […]
Very soon, my fourth novel JONTY’S WIN will be published and available to buy online or borrow from my local library. I will now go back to the beginning and start the revision of the other three: PRETENDING, RURAL CUT and THE MAN WHO THOUGHT HE WAS HAPPY. I boldly went ahead and published three […]
So, you have finished your novel? No opening the Prosecco and crisps. It’s time to rewrite it. That’s a hard pill to swallow, but unless you do embark on this tedious journey, you will never know if your plot, your characters or your idea to write the thing in the first place, was worthwhile and […]
Tonight is World Book Night. I remember the first book I read. Do you? As a late reader, it was the persistent encouragement from my mother and a particularly vigilant, rather large nun (I was educated at a convent) who together, pushed me to read and engage in the magical world hidden within the pages. That book […]
