THE SKINNER

Right, good stuff: I’ve edited my way through the three books while turning chapter notes into synopses along the way. As I have mentioned...

Quite a while back I wrote a short story, based on the Owner trilogy, to be used in publicity. It wasn't used so I retrieved it and dis...

Something I’d been thinking about, and considering writing a blog post about, was nicely summed up by Rich Daniels on Facebook: Anti-s...

Here's an update of the list: Book Detail Number Price Brass Man ...

Despite Best Efforts of Anti-Smoking Groups, Cigarette SalesWere Down 600 Million Units in First Quarter of 2013 Despite the best effo...

So I have decided to try bringing my weight down. On Monday I ate nothing at all and that brought me down from 13 stone 9 pounds to 13st 4...

So, when we went off to Crete in April my weight was hovering at about 13 stone 3 pounds. I know this because I’m quite anal about this so...

Day 24 of not smoking today. My slight sore throat has passed as has the wheeziness and I now put them down an adjustment period or leftov...

We took a boat trip on the Thames yesterday. This came about because neighbours of Caroline’s parents had booked the Pocahontas out of Gra...

Well, it’s strange to realize that it has now been two weeks and two days since I smoked a cigarette. I am also finding it difficult to sa...

Nice mention over on Io9! And for your delectation here's the US cover of Zero Poin t:

On Sunday we drove to Maldon to the take a walk along the prom. Annoyingly, living in a village in Essex means there’s nowhere to take a w...