Waiting like an expectant father…

I recall these lyrics from the song Bitter Suite from the wondrous album Misplaced Childhood by Marillion. For a writer, patience needs to be a virtue. Not the waiting of twiddling with thumbs type, but the nervy expectation and hope of upwards trends with regards to book sales, received reviews and social media statistics. Unfortunately, …

A waste of time?

It was Jason Mantzoukas the author, actor & comedian who said: "I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time. Being a self-published writer, I fully understand the …

A piss-up in a brewery…

One of my favourite expressions to describe the inability to arrange things successfully is when "Someone can't organise a piss-up in a brewery!" This is easily understood, easily relatable and at times for me, painfully apparent. This typically happens when time is limited, the pressure is mounting and there are way too many things going. …

The three wise gifts of writing

Three Kings Day is approaching and is celebrated in many hispanic countries in South America and of course, Spain. The feast commemorates the visit of three biblical Magi, referred to as three wise men or three kings. Each brought a gift to honour the birth of Jesus Christ: Gold - a precious metal; frankincense - …

These books are no lollipops…!

In the 1934 song by Shirley Temple, the "Good Ship Lollipop" travels to a candy land with the lollipop being a symbol of childhood innocence and pleasure. The Chordettes in 1954, gave the lollipop a different twist by associating a cute guy to appetitive desires... The definition of a lollipop is: “A large, flat, rounded …