by Andy | 12th Feb 2016 | CSI Eddie Collins, Life, The Third Rule, Writing
I blame Eddie Collins. You know when you get to Sainsbury’s for the fish fingers for tonight’s tea, and you curse because the carrier bags you’d set neatly aside on the hallway table are still there? These are the carrier bags you’d bought on the last shopping trip...
by Andy | 20th Feb 2013 | Life, Promotion, Writing
I ought to qualify the following by first of all saying how much of a people person I am not. It’s not that I don’t like people, it’s just that I am ‘not good’ with them. ‘Not good’ depends largely upon what kind of person they are I suppose. But I find my simple life...
by Andy | 2nd Jan 2013 | Life, The Third Rule, Writing
In the words of someone famous: “It’s been a funny old year.” This is a gathering of thoughts concerning events that have happened in 2012. A synopsis, if you like. I began the year on a big personal downer – one of the biggest of my life. On the...
by Andy | 10th Nov 2012 | Life, The Third Rule, Writing
A Long Time Dead, Stealing Elgar, and No More Tears continue to do well on Amazon. I have pulled them out of Amazon Select and have decided to upload them to Smashwords to see if we can get them out to an even wider audience. The Third Rule – Part One: Atrocities, The...
by Andy | 13th Mar 2012 | Life, The Third Rule, Writing
After a sabbatical from novel-writing (I’ve been playing with scripts for the last few years), I have worked on The Third Rule for the last three months solidly, to the exclusion of everything else except food and sleep – and only if absolutely necessary; that’s every...
by Andy | 30th Jan 2012 | Life, Writing
So working nights isn’t as conducive to writing as I’d hoped. I am on day one, which means I have all day to write, it means I have until about 9.30pm to get the story out of my head and set it adrift on this very keyboard. Easy. *Whistles* This is definitely not...
