I was long overdue a rewatch of Shawn Ryan’s masterpiece drama and when it appeared on Amazon Prime, it neatly solved the problem I had. I bought Seasons 3 and 4 in America years ago and I don’t have the DVD player to watch them on NTSC any more. With that stumbling block out of […]
Read more "Rewatching ‘The Shield’"Hi all, I managed to wheedle my way onto national television this week. Blink and you’ll miss me, literally. Last year, local conservationist Sandi Toksvig was the focus of a Channel 4 documentary series about the work she has been doing restoring some local woodland. She came to our annual parish council assembly (where you […]
Read more "My 15 Minutes – catch me on national television"Hi all, Letting you know that you can get your (virtual) hands on my debut novel, The Ardenna Crossing: Between Two Worlds completely free this weekend. From Friday to Sunday, the Kindle version of Paul Armstrong’s story will be free on Amazon. Here is the link… https://amzn.eu/d/2YQiEO7 Happy reading, Richard
Read more "Get The Ardenna Crossing *free* this weekend"Ivy, Polly, Cian and I take on Cinderella stories today. Join us for the tale of Afri, who escapes a terrible life of modern slavery with the help of a very unexpected ‘Fairy Godmother’. Thank you so much for listening. Send in your ideas and writing to shottstories@grayshott.hants.sch.uk and we’ll read it out on the […]
Read more "Shott Stories – Episode 11 available now"Dear all, I’m posting this again; something I wrote a few years ago, in light of this week’s sad news. I just took part in the 10 minute meditation that happened around the world involving many of us, and now seems like as good a time as any to share this. When I was 14 […]
Read more "David Lynch"Hi everyone, Episode 10 of our podcast series is now available on Apple podcasts, Amazon podcasts, Podbean and IHeartRadio. Cian, Haydon and I are joined by special guests Daisy and Morgan to help us bring the story of Polykian to a close. It’s a fantasy adventure with a real emotional gut punch at the end. […]
Read more "Shott Stories – Episode 10 out now!"Hi all, The latest episode of Shott Stories is live now (link below) and the team really need your help on this one. We’ve delved into the genre of fantasy and done a bit of world-building but we really need a few ideas to help us along when we put the story together next week. […]
Read more "Shott Stories Episode 9 – Help Needed!"Hi all, After a long, long slog, nearly six years since I wrote the first lines of this sequel, I’m very pleased to say that the first draft is done and the next stage is here. The Ardenna Crossing: A Thousand White Fragments Paul and the crew of the Ardenna have been taken through the […]
Read more "Ardenna Crossing 2 Update – First Draft Complete"Dear All, The latest episode of Shott Stories is available now. Cian, Ivy, Polly and Haydon join me to finish off the story of Jessica Law and her battle with the Aztec god of the wind: Ehecatl. Will she survive? Will we manage to shoehorn any references to Christmas into our Christmas horror story? you’ll […]
Read more "Shott Stories – Episode 8 out now"This is something of a departure from my usual subject matter. However; when I came across this gentleman’s life story as part of a planning session at school, I felt I had to look a little more deeply and share it with people. I had never heard of him before but it turns out that […]
Read more "Colonel Percy Fawcett – Adventurer or Pretender?"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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