Sharjah-stamp1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's been a while, I know. Holidays, work, more holidays. Stuff. Life's been busy. ...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There have been a number of recent reports celebrating the ‘undeath’ of print, with a reported decline in t...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) For the first time in my book writing career, I have been censored. And it's not by who you...

(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 ...

Olives - A Violent Romance and Beirut - An Explosive Thriller have sold out of their print editions. I'm still not sure how to r...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It's terrible not to have the time for stuff and I'm increasingly struggling to cram every...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I've just been working on slidesets for next week's series of workshops on how to write, edit and ...

Gerrard King's amazing pill skull image,  wot graces the cover of Shemlan - A Deadly Tragedy. I didn't realise until the di...

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

As they climbed up into the hills above Beirut, Hartmoor gazed out of the car window at the buildings around them. No scent of spring fo...

I found a sub-folder in my laptop's big mess of writing folders that contained a tiny snippet of text - an idea I'd jotted down ...

Okay, so here's the deal. this week (starting today, ending Friday 12th July) I'm giving away ebook copies of Olives - A Violent...

"Those looking for nonstop action, political intrigue, smatterings of sex and violence and explosions aplenty need look no further...

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 ...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Someone just found out they could get Beirut - An Explosive Thriller on Kindle. Whaaat? How could anyone...

Ben Jonson is a doctor in Richmond, London. Life is peachy, perhaps the only cloud on his horizon being the problem of communicating w...

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

Beirut - An Explosive Thriller will be in UAE bookshops by December. With a little luck (and the permission of censors) it will go on sa...

Writing a book is just the start of the journey to publication, whether you’re self published or taken on by a publisher. More and more...

Michel Freij is poised to become the next president of Lebanon. The billionaire businessman’s calls for a new, strong regional role for...