Croutique is a sort of Middle Eastern Etsy , a place for crafters to sell their crafts to people who value something a little off the...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I clearly want to tell the world about A Decent Bomber . This is perfectly natural, it's my latest...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's not my fault I've ended up with two books. The Irish Farmer took a year to write, the newnew ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A Simple Irish Farmer , which I am assured is the thriller working title from hell by people who know bett...

Dramatic Gerbil (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I was once chatting to an American gentleman who insisted he was going to Gerbil Arlee. It t...

English: Ian Dury in concert. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Please note: this post is best read from the bottom up. 6.30pm Wh...

I might have forgotten to mention this (I didn't? Oh, goodie !), but kids' author Rachel Hamilton and I will be on the Terrace a...

When Olives - A Violent Romance first started to infest bookshelves around the UAE, the sales team at distributor Jashanmal making thei...

When I finished writing Space in 2002 or thereabouts, the idea of writing a synopsis after having dashed down 100,000 words of prose was...

The cover of Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy. Australian artist Gerrard King created the cover image for Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy ...

(Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ) It's an odd place to be in. Having finished Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy , I...

Mars (chocolate bar) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What? Have I sold out? What's going on? Adwords on Fake Plastic Souks? What kind ...

Yes! It's the book of the blog! As I mentioned in one of last week's traffic-destroying booky posts, I was giving a workshop at ...

The Umbrella Series - four workshops on the creation and distribution of words - takes place at The Archive on Wednesdays throughout Feb...

Dubai (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Dubai's not really the kind of place you'd expect to find an apres-ski joint, but sure enough,...

English: Open book icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Rather to my surprise, the workshop on publishing and promoting your book I gave at ...

Part of my list of the fourteen London publishers Robin shopped 'Beirut'   to - pretty much a 'who's who' of pub...

English: Open book icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Honestly, you've no idea how many book blogs there are out there. After trawli...

I'm doing a reading tomorrow - and for a change, it's not from Olives !!!  Dubai based editor Meghna Pant is launching her firs...

Cover via Amazon When I first started out on this whole book writing thing, to my ever-lasting regret, I kept very quiet indeed about w...