Summer’s never long enough, is it? If the reappearance of PSLs at your Starbucks wasn’t clear enough, or the resurgence of Gilmore Girls to the top of your Netflix algorithm, September’s upon us once more and the seasons seem to have finally turned. Here we go. I’ve long transcended caring enough about this blog to […]
Ahoy. Shadows‘ wordcount hit 80,000 this weekend, which by my usual standards is a bit of a suspicious milestone. I started writing this novel in March of this year – as a direct result of visiting the marvellous (and sadly over) Life in the Roman Army exhibition at the British Museum, as a matter of […]
Ahoy there. Anyone who follows this blog semi-regularly is probably well accustomed to my whiplashing pace of content. Going from four posts in a month to nary a single update for three is very, very, on brand for me. To anyone who’s been getting their teeth into Herakles during this time (and they’re aren’t exactly […]
Ahem. I’m now three for three with missing the birthday milestone for this blog (this time over a week out). But for most of the last week I was sick as a dog, so for once I think I had a valid excuse. Any soppy stuff or work updates I would have put in this […]
Ahem. So it would seem I missed a rather key milestone on this blog the other week. Not a lot to say here, but given how the last three years or so I’ve been trying (and largely failing) to build a following for my work, which could translate into any sort of meaningful impact on […]
Hellooooooooo. I know. I know. My streak of surprisingly consistent small-form blogposts came to a crashing end, this summer, with a rather resounding 4-month absence since I finished the first draft of Herakles. Long enough, in fact, for the weather to turn a pleasant shade of autumn in the meantime (when it wasn’t bucketing down […]
There’s a particular clip from the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that I’ve always found strangely poignant and timeless. It’s also one I think is utterly stone-dead hilarious, and frankly, I’ve been awaiting the day I can share it with baited breath. I’ve been away from this blog for longer than anticipated, though for […]
I’m only a day off this year. Last year it was over a fortnight, so I suppose that’s a partial improvement? The ironic thing is I actually did remember to post about it yesterday, only for it to completely slip my mind. Only Twitter was there to thankfully give me a nudge (given I set […]
This afternoon I happened to hop on YouTube – as I often do, most days – and scrolling through my feed of subscribed channels and suggested videos, I came across a rather familiar thumbnail. Intrigued, I clicked through. And then peered a little closer. Shit, I thought. I know that guy. I can now confirm […]
My first post of 2023. Morning, folks. Hope your Christmas and end of year was all you wanted it to be. I have a fairly good track record for missing milestones on this blog (I think I’m about five for five, if we’re counting), but I think we passed this particular one not long after […]
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