Poems and Persistence

Added on 17 September 2016

After a two year period of focusing almost exclusively on my next novel, I’m back to writing shorter stuff, and in particular taking regular days to pay attention to poetry. During August I looked at all the poems I have finished but have never been published. I chucked all the dead, withered ...

The question of croft houses

Added on 10 September 2016

Assynt Foundation is moving ahead with the plan to create new crofts, and it has been great to see how many expressions of interest have been sent in. When I last blogged about this, one of the comments I received was an encouragement to write more about houses on the crofts. The call for interest t...

New! Podcast!

Added on 03 September 2016

I received lots of comments by email and on Facebook from people who weren't able to come to my reading at the bookshop in Nairn, wishing they had been able to hear me. I guess it has been ages since I did a reading like that. To reach out to these people, I have done a virtual reading of at lea...