by Andy | 30th Oct 2014 | The Lift, Writing
Well I let the cat out of the bag. I’ve been working on a new Eddie Collins story called The Lift. I was, if I’m being honest, going to keep it quiet until I’d finished the story, that way there’d be no pressure on me to finish it or even make...
by Andy | 27th Oct 2014 | Writing
Do you remember the book by Stephen King entitled The Tommyknockers where one of the protagonists, Bobbi Anderson finds a spaceship in the woods near her house? After the discovery, her failing writing career suddenly takes off, as I recall. Indeed, it takes off in...
by Andy | 26th Sep 2014 | Police
I don’t usually blog about work directly. I like to keep this website and this blog more focused on writing and on the books themselves, but occasionally I drift towards something that makes my hackles rise. And here’s one: anti-police. I saw a blog post by a police...
by Andy | 15th Sep 2014 | Interview, Writing
I’m not a good interviewee, I admit. But I do enjoy the exchange, the sharing of knowledge; and I really do enjoy discovering things about myself as I search for a reasonable answer to an extraordinary question. I never lie – not on purpose anyway. If I can’t answer a...
by Andy | 6th Mar 2014 | Writing
When you begin to learn something, you start out with no internal point of reference for judging the quality of your work. The only reference you have is the work of others, and as a new writer, you may be comparing yourself to the work of well-established authors...
by Andy | 6th Mar 2014 | Writing
When you begin to learn something, you start out with no internal point of reference for judging the quality of your work. The only reference you have is the work of others, and as a new writer, you may be comparing yourself to the work of well-established authors...
