If you don't follow my Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media, you probably missed my big announcement about the future of my crime comedy series (with ghosts) set in Cornwall called Salmonweird. I will self-publish the first volume of the book on 2nd September 2019. It's available on Amazon Kindle. You may preorder the [...]
What's Trending in SmugMug Photography: November 2019
I started this post in August 2019. Rather than creating new posts, I'm going to update this one each month with what people are looking at on my site. 5... Low Tide at Perranporth The first of two new entries into this list and a surprising one. This is one of my favourite landscape images [...]
Read The Christmas Goblin children’s eBook
Read a brief excerpt from my children's novelette The Christmas Goblin.
Confused About Social Selling? Here’s What You Need to Know
If you're still #advertising on social media with "buy our stuff!" type post, you're using out of date practices. #SocialSelling is where it's at now.
How You Can Support Independent Sellers This Christmas
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Over the last few years, there has been a movement in retail trends imploring consumers to have an #IndieChristmas - buying Christmas presents from places other than big business and to prioritise independent sellers. For many of us, the go-to place is Amazon. I'm not going to call [...]
My 2019 Maltese Adventure – Part 2
I wanted to break these posts down because the last two days of my holiday were arguably the busiest. Realising we were running out of time to see the things we wanted to see on the islands, we decided to make a plan. But the plan never went, um, according to plan. Day 5 - [...]
My 2019 Maltese Adventure – Part 1
I promised I'd blog about my holiday to Malta and here I am, finally here with some images and a run through of our holiday. After a difficult year in many ways, Cat and I were looking forward to this much needed holiday to Malta, (Ancient Roman Melite, the honey island although by rights it [...]
How to Psychologically Torture Your Characters – a Recipe
250g of resenting dependency of others150g of feeling like a failure100ml of selflessness and being used by people100ml of social pressures3tbsp essence of personal injustice5 medium sized organic unrequited love pods Mix all the ingredients in a pot and stir thoroughly until fully blended, leaving no lumpy bits of personal injustice. The unrequited love pods [...]
Learning to Murder Your Darlings
Although most of my focus has been on releasing Salmonweird, (just two weeks away from release now!) I've made a lot of progress on Children of Phobetor this year. I've made more progress in one year than I ever thought I would for a book that's 6 years in the making. Now I'm staring at [...]
The Fake Work Holding Your Small Business Back
The human mind has an infinite capacity for distraction. Even the most committed freelancer / small business owner is less productive in a day than they might otherwise be if they could focus properly. That's ok. Because after all, we're human and not mindless drones. While the human mind's capacity for procrastination is infinite, there [...]
Photography Round Up: You Can Now Buy My Images, and a New Lens
It's been a while since I posted about my photography. A couple of months in fact. Which, by this current schedule, is about 5 posts. I remember a time when I was posting 3-4 times a week, sometimes every day. As I said in my last post, web content has diversified. Blogs are no longer [...]
