The editorial team has now met in complete secrecy in the bar of the Mare & Foal, and formulated this year's submission guidelines. They're pretty much the same as last year's in fact.   First and most rigid. We can accept submissions o... Read more

Monday is Halloween, the night the witches ride, the night the undead come to pay us a visit (also known as the team United put out against City last week).   Beyond Halloween lies an even more frightening, annual experience. Christmas! (... Read more

Hello again.   Pottering about here and there, I read an awful lot about book trailers and how we need them to help sell our work. I've always been a bit sceptical, but last week, twiddling thumbs to the degree of a Gordian Knot, I though... Read more

Towards the end of last year, or was it the beginning of this one (I can't tell you because I can't find the post) I set myself the impossible target of knocking out 10 books by the spring. I didn't make it.   But I wasn't that far out. H... Read more

  A mirror post of the one on my main blog   I've just had a week's holiday and I'm one of life's early risers. Mrs R doesn't mind me taking a netbook along so I can work while I'm waiting for her to get out of bed on a morning, but s... Read more

Exactly one year ago today, Her Indoors and I jumped on a plane and cleared off to Tenerife for a fortnight. Regular readers will know that we usually disappear three or four times a year. With retirement tightening the wallet a bit, we decided ... Read more

  Being old-ish, surly, outspoken, grumpy and notoriously tight-fisted means I don't get invited to dinner very often. Usually, it's only at Christmas and they can't avoid me because they're family. Even so, I always get the impression the... Read more

Hello you lot   For those of you not already aware, my series of whodunits going under the umbrella title, The Sanford Third Age Club Investigates, has been up and running for a few months and there are two more titles due out soon: one i... Read more

One of the big arguments against indies is a lack of editing. It's not always the case. Maureen edits all my work independently. But when I see titles like A Roman Peace in Briton it gives me cause for concern.   I haven't read the book.... Read more

A virtual mirror post from my main blog at www.dwrob.com   While you lot are arguing the toss between Kate Bush, Robbie Williams and Dickie Valentine, I caught a snippet on Facebook from our old friend, Trevor Belshaw. Trevor's been in the ... Read more