THE SKINNER

Since I really enjoy the Critical Drinker’s You Tube videos I felt I should give one of his books a try – written under his real name Will J...

My internet is not always 100% either in the UK or on Crete. Sometimes is slows down so that loading circle appears in the middle of watchin...

Since my last blog post on the subject a month and a half ago I’ve been eating a ketogenic diet (as I noted in that blog post: I’m in ketos...

Here's the last of the new covers for my Kindle and POD books produced by Vincent Sammy . I think he's done an excellent job. Depi...

  I’ve stuck a new short story collection up on Kindle and POD . This was shortly after I received the cover from Vincent Sammy , who has a...

After going back into weight training in a gym in the summer, when I usually only do it in the winter, I began to get bigger than about half...

 It seems my nicotine trajectory has been one of, ‘Hmm, this is hurting me – I’ll cut it back just enough to stop the pain.’ So, over the ye...

Things have been getting busy on the writing/publication front. Last year, upon finishing up with War Bodies I was a bit undecided about wh...

Judging by some of his posts on social media Vincent Sammy has been busy producing artwork for publications for Stephen King and Richard Chi...

As I have detailed elsewhere, before I got taken on by Macmillan I was working my way up the writing ladder with numerous setbacks along the...

I recently had my Twitter account restricted, which came as a surprise what with a ‘free speech absolutist’ now in charge. But then Twitter ...

If there’s one lesson I hope people have learned and are learning in this internet social media age it is that are no founts of truth out th...

Between my school years and my early twenties I was coming to decisions about what to do with my life – where to apply my effort. I’ve menti...

Those who follow me on the social media will know that for quite a few years now I’ve been on a health-optimising rollercoaster. The backgro...

 Feb 2nd Phew! I guess I've now got what I was aiming for with ketosis. It's been 6 days since I ended my last fast. I've been e...

As a child, in my teens and through to my twenties and early thirties, I was an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy. I used to altern...

 1st Jan January 1st 2022. If previous years are anything to go by, and ignoring the viral push to be frightened of leaving the house, gym a...