Lady of the Blue Rose – a poem

It was Saturday night and I’d settled in to my palatial accommodations on the Camden Road. I’d had a great first day at the Twin Peaks UK Festival, the highlight of which, I think, was hearing Chrysta Bell sing this fantastic song, Blue Rose. I was going to write a post about the first day […]

Twin Peaks UK Festival 2018 in pictures

My weekend at the Twin Peaks UK Festival started early on Saturday morning. After getting lucky with buses and trains, I ended up at Camden Road. After a short wait in the queue, my VIP access brought me to a table full of donuts, two of which I dispatched in short order. The first room […]

Monday Music 22 – 2018

This week’s Monday Music is two great performances from this weekend’s Twin Peaks UK Festival. Chrysta Bell and Rebekah Del Rio both put in stunning performances which the audio on my camcorder does no justice to whatsoever. They were both wonderful and so different. I’ll be following up in the next couple of days with […]

Poetry Win! Twin Peaks haiku project

Hi everyone, I’ve shared this news already with some, but I thought I would put out a wider post about the fantastic news I had a couple of weeks ago. As you have no doubt seen, I’ve gone poetry crazy this year, with daily haikus and longer pieces on the website, all to do with […]

Deleted Scenes #1

Hi there, As I said a few weeks ago, I am looking at some rewrites of the beginning of my book. Part of the process is what is referred to as ‘killing your darlings.’ That is the process of cutting large chunks of writing that you are really in love with but that ultimately don’t […]

Tonight’s Viewing – The Predator (spoiler-free)

OK, so this is different. One of my rare forays to the cinema; in fact the first time I’ve been since Infinity War. I had relatively low expectations. I knew that Shane Black, writer of the original Predator film (which would probably make it into my Top 30 films) was involved and that gave me […]

Monday Music 20 – 2018

This week’s Monday Music comes from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All the attention has been sucked up by Jerry Goldsmith’s theme music which was later used as the main theme for The Next Generation, however he came up with some other lovely pieces within the film. Here’s what I wrote about the film itself […]

Sitting Behind Glass – a haiku sequence

I wanted to do something based on the interrogation scene where Evil Coop is visited by Gordon, Tammy and Albert. It’s a scene that makes my skin crawl, brilliantly played by all concerned. Here are a few haikus about it. Sitting Behind Glass Sitting behind glass But he’s with you in the room The darkest […]

Tonight’s Viewing – Mystery Men

“We’ve got a blind date with destiny, and it looks like she’s ordered the lobster!” I’ve wanted to see this again for quite a while, so I finally dug out my box of DVDs and found it. These days we are awash with superhero films. Marvel and DC battle it out (not that it’s much of a […]

Ardenna Crossing Update

Hi there, I went a bit quiet for a while on this front. I was licking my wounds after the feedback I received from my editor. Firstly, some advice. If you’re waiting for this kind of stuff to come in, and you happen to check your email at 3am when you wake up to feed […]