Preparing for bears

Added on 19 March 2017

Anyone who has read my novels (special offer here!) won’t be surprised that I’m in favour of the reintroduction of carnivores to Scotland. It’s an obvious solution to the problem we face of over-sized populations of deer. As usual I’m running a car with a massive dent in the...

28 Plays Later

Added on 04 March 2017

During the month of February I took part in a challenge called '28 Plays Later', which meant writing a play every day. It seemed a near-impossible task to begin with, but I hoped it would get my creative juices flowing, improve the fluence of my script-writing and allow me to experiment with...

Iron Age Writers

Added on 18 February 2017

No, this is not about quills and oak gall ink (although there may need to be a future blog post about that) but type-on-tree-pulp writing about the Iron Age. In this post I want to share and recommend two of my favourite writers about the Iron Age, one non-fiction and one fiction. The first is Barry...