Yes, yes! I know I’m a slack b**tard and I should be posting here more often, but I’ve just been too busy these past couple of months to do so. I did think about making it a New Years resolution but, on reflection, I think that if anything it will only be an “unofficial” New [...]
I’ve decided to try and make the “Speckled Band” page a bit more prominent if I can? By this I mean the Sherlock Homes story, rather than the blog itself. The reason why I want to do that is because I’ve noticed that I’m number two on most of the search engines for “The Speckled [...]
Quite a number of years ago now I was once asked to be one of two judges for a children’s story competition. Kids from all around the state (though it might have been all of Australia actually?) submitted the text and illustrations for an original story that I then had to pick a winner and [...]
I’ve had a bit of an epiphany. I’ve just realized that I’ve been totally disregarding a section of the general public that may, from time to time, have a need to look up my name for say……A SCHOOL PROJECT! I have to admit that I’ve been a bit slow on the uptake here and completely [...]
I found something interesting on the Not Safe For Children blog which I wanted to expand upon here. It’s about a cool project called The Monster Engine which has now been made into a book. Basically it poses the question – What would a kid’s drawing be like if it were made into a real [...]
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve put a new banner up on the blog and soon I’ll be working on getting the layout closer to “my vision” of how I want it to be. In fact that’s a bit of a hurdle there as I don’t really have a vision at this stage. [...]
I’ve put a few of the rough “mock up” drafts for Weather Or Not up on the site for anyone who’s interested in seeing one of the books that I’m working on (albeit verrrrrrry slowly!) This book has been a long long while in coming and it’s kinda really been “on again, off again” if [...]
I thought I’d put a sample of some of my writing up here. Although this story is complete (sans any real editing, mind you) it’s been put aside for a while – though i’ve been thinking of it lately, hence the post. I’ve also been collecting together various images and ideas and doing a few [...]
Yup, there I was this morning, fresh from a good night’s sleep and brimming with some REALLY INTERESTING things to say on the blog today….. But then I forgot it all?? I mean it’s not as if halfway through putting on my trousers and makeup…….Ooops, scratch that. I don’t wear makeup. Yeah, anyhow it’s not [...]
Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about different things that I could write about on here because I didn’t want to get too bogged down just on what’s been happening lately with Amy. I mean not that there’s any problem with that, per se’. It’s my life after all and obviously this site [...]