With book coach & author Ellie Stevenson. Recognised as one of the top book coaches by the Coach Foundation.
Pinterest is a wonderful resource. It's an online picture board, on which you can capture those images that tell your story (any story) and share them with the world. You can visit my Ship of Haunts Pinterest board here: the board gives insights into the novel as well as the themes behind the book, principally... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday I was at the Birmingham Independent Book Fair, at the Ikon Gallery (organised by Writing West Midlands. Thanks guys!). It was a great opportunity to meet readers, visitors and gallery staff as well as network with fellow authors and independent publishers. A number of us also read from our work. The fair was... Continue Reading →
Apologies for the long gap between posts. I've been busy promoting the paperback version of Watching Charlotte Brontë Die: and other surreal stories as well as revising the next novel (more on the latter shortly). In the meantime here’s part three of the history, haunts and hospitals series, focusing on Powick (a former mental hospital).... Continue Reading →
This is a briefer post than normal. I wanted to flag up that Ship of Haunts: the other Titanic story is on sale from Friday 7th February (e-book version) for a week, with prices starting at 99p/$1.63. Get your copy soon! At the same time I thought I’d talk about time and Titanic as the... Continue Reading →
This week we discover what life was like as a patient and nurse at Worcester (General, later Royal) Infirmary, learn a few new medical terms and hear about the infirmary ghosts. Life as a patient in the past wasn’t quite what it is today. In order to gain access to medical treatment, individuals had to... Continue Reading →
The University of Worcester’s City Campus, a Georgian Grade II listed building, was once Worcester Royal Infirmary (RVI), built to solve a shortage of beds at the previous infirmary in Silver Street. The new hospital (1771) was originally known as Worcester General Infirmary (WGI) but was granted Royal status in 1932. A wealth of stories... Continue Reading →
Motivation to Publication - and beyond 