My Montage Homage to Time Travel Novels
Just a bit of fun! Any others you think I should include here?
Using Vellum Software for Typesetting
Because I am self-publishing The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, I needed to get it typeset for my ebook and paperback versions. I did investigate …
Write What You Want to Write – Not What You Think is Commercial
Before I completed my first novel which was published, I tried writing several other books (plus more that never got past chapter one…), including one …
What have you done today to help sell another copy of your book?
I used to be a software salesman, and on one occasion I visited one of the UK’s main political parties to demo our system. When …
The Best 7 Novels About Food
Food is in many novels, including mine, but there are some books which nail it. Some revolve around food, others incorporate it less so but …
What inspired me to write The Kosher Delhi
One of the most common questions I am asked is: What inspired you to write your book, The Kosher Delhi? I should prefix my answer …
My top 4 tips on how to write a synopsis for your novel
So you’ve written your novel, you’re ready to submit it to agents/publishers and now you have to write a synopsis. Good luck! If you haven’t …
It’s the journey that matters
Ursula K. Le Guin wrote “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” …
Fictional Restaurants I Would Like to Eat in
One of the themes in The Kosher Delhi is food, and the restaurants which Vik works in. All fictional, of course. Which got me thinking: …
How I Write
I heard an interview with David Baddiel recently, where he talked about “how he wrote”; he said (and I am paraphrasing): I sit down at …