Did you know that today is commonly accepted as Sherlock Holmes’ birthday? Although the exact details and circumstances of his fictional birth are unknown, we know that Sherlock was born on 6th January 1854 making him one hundred and sixty eight years old today. I am a big fan of Sherlock in almost all of …
I love libraries. All writers should. Hell, everyone should. One of the first jobs I had was working in the school library and one of my first “real” jobs was working in my local library. Sadly I don’t work in the British Library (yet) but on the 11th May 2019 I officially became a member. I’ve …
Have you ever written a Facebook status or a composed an important email, pressed send and then noticed a mistake in the text? It’s mortifying. This feeling is even worse when you call yourself a writer and people expect all your written work to be of top quality. Like Frankenstein rejecting his monster after its …
London is ancient. The Romans built a settlement sometime after 43AD and called it Londinium but historians argue there is evidence of a town before that. Currently London is home to 8.63 million people and is the setting of countless stories. I’ve visited the location of three well known stories set in London to see …