Good Mother Gosse

Look, here she comes now, bustling into the village square like a ship in full sail. A silly old woman you may think, if you’re fooled by the once-glamorous shawl stretched across her bosom and the layers of petticoats festooned around her unguessable form.

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Mokey

It had been like falling into a vat of tar. He’d been distracted by the girls’ bewitching voices, and while he listened, the thick, heavy blackness had swallowed him – slowly, lazily. Read all »

Jung’s People

This is the first book published under the imprint Circaidy Gregory Press (and anyone who has read the book will already know where the name ‘Circaidy Gregory’ comes from!

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What is Circaidy Gregory?

Circaidy Gregory is an imprint I have set up this year to produce what I think of as a series of authors’ manifestos.

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Now and Then…

Now and then, I am tempted to write poetry. Sometimes, it goes like this… Read all »

How to Avoid Making Money

Over at Earlyworks Press we have found ways of avoiding making a profit from writing competitions, from running a subscription club, or from publishing books. Now, why would we want to do a thing like that, and why would I want to tell the world about our marvellous failure? Read all »

Do Writers Need Agents?

Do I need an agent?
What do agents do for their money?
Why isn’t my agent/publisher marketing my work?

I’ve had quite a few email debates around these questions and have just embarked on two more so it’s clearly a hot topic. Here’s my tuppenceworth: Read all »

Why Choose Psychological Fantasy?

Well, first and foremost, why do we do anything we do? How often do we really know what we do? That mischievous imp (or fairy) that led you to do A instead of B and cause all that trouble last Thursday was probably inspired by Read all »

What Kind of Publisher do you Want?

If you are developing a career as a writer these days, you are probably aware that there are many different ways of going on. the Internet has opened many new roads to publication - and also exposed questing writers to many new pitfalls. Read all »

Earlyworks Press

(To see the whole article, click its title bar.)

Well, on the ‘About Us’ page of the Earlyworks Press website I explain it thus: Read all »