I was thinking recently on the books that really influenced me when I was younger. I generally don't count the books I enjoyed among them; we may all have liked the Famous Five, for example, but those kinds of books were throwaway for me, to be read and liked and then...
That up there is a concept car called a Mazda Furai. It has a 450HP Renesis engine, and... oh never mind. You probably don't care. Just look at it. Look at the beauty of it.I would give anything to drive this car.I've talked before about how I love cars and I love to...
Two posts in a single day. Who would have thought I'd ever have so much to talk about?I read a lot of blogs, and inevitably I follow my nose through their links and find my way to other blogs and websites. Today, I've wandered into a blog by an author called Neesha...
So, Avatar has come out on DVD and BluRay, and smashed all kinds of records for most discs sold and all that. I will freely admit that I simply do not buy DVDs, and I don't own a BluRay player, so I'm a little baffled by all the excitement. If this follows the same...
I think every author must remember their first stories. The first published one, the first written one, the first completed one. You think back on them sometimes, even when you know they were complete rubbish and your current material is infinitely better. It's a tiny...
I'm very, very nervous about this, but... I have to do it sometime. I'm opening up the blog so that it can be seen publicly.This is an author thing, I guess. You need a presence online, something for people to connect with and enjoy and pass along to their friends. It...
I read a very interesting blog post today over on www.nielsenhayden.com. You should go read it.It's ok, I'll wait.... ... ...Read it? Good. Here's the part that really struck me: It’s a central narrative of Britain’s Got Talent: the shy, podgy little contestant comes...
On this day, in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. I'm celebrating the occasion by watching a film called The Dish. It remains one of my favourite movies of all time. It was pitched as a comedy, though, and it never received the real recognition...