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, …

Happy New Year!

First of all, let me start by wishing all you readers all the best for the New Year! May all your dreams and wishes come true, in good health, good spirit and good fun! The start of a new year is often accompanied by new year's resolutions. The Victorian novelist Lucas Malet said; "Good resolutions …

Top 2000

Listening to the top-2000 best songs all time is a year-end tradition for many people in the Lowlands. Family and friends north of the border will listen to Dutch Radio 2, whereas in Flanders Studio Brussels is the place to be. There are so many favourites that it's easy to forgive a song that meets …

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. …