Well, it would appear as if 5pm on Friday the 7th of February is the time to be at the Intercon Festival City. That's when I'l...

We took an A380. It's quicker... So, here we are back 'in station' from 'leave in UK'. The coming week will invo...

I just thought this was more fun than the EAFOL logo, to be honest... The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is once again upon ...

Every Saturday, the Emirates Airline LitFest crew take over the Dubai Eye Radio studio for three hours. They do unthinkable things behind...

Look, first things first. I've always loved the original cover of my first serious novel, Olives - A Violent Romance , which publish...

Well, our series of four weekly  Emirates Literature Foundation workshops on how to write, edit, find a publisher for or self publish y...

I'm feeling slightly shell-shocked this morning. The weekend's whirl is over and I realised, probably massively belatedly but th...

Pristine Private School is one of a number of schools clustered in the middle of tower blocks and residential buildings in Dubai's n...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I'm doing a third panel at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature , "Future Shock: Writin...

If you needed proof I am truly ancient, I know what these computers are. One of the things I love best about the Internet is how it st...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Running in a new car on the Dubai-Al Ain highway is not something I'd recommend, people. It's dead...

I love school visits. They're sort of part of being at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature . You don't have to do them b...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The second panel session wot I am doing at the wonderful Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is tit...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've posted in times past on how to write a book . I've posted about how to edit a book - an...

Birdkill launches on the 1st March - I may have forgotten to mention that? If I did, sorry. This coincides with the first day of the E...

So the order's gone in to Createspace for WH Smith's stock of Birdkill ( as well as my other books) to sell at the Emirates Airl...

I not only have this book, but have cooked from it. I hope you're duly impressed... The LitFest unveiled its 2016 line-up of auth...

I'm on a panel at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature on Friday with Orion Publishing Director Kate Mills and head of Norw...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) On the 5th March 2015, I'll be spending a couple of hours of my afternoon telling a small and bemu...

They've been and gone and done it. Last night in a glittering gala event with thousands of sizzling gypsies, the LitFest gang annou...