John Siddique: Full Blood

It is my pleasure to welcome poet, John Siddique, to my blog today.  He is a poet whose work I have followed and enjoyed for several years now. But he is also one of those writers whose career I have observed from a far with admiration and some wonder. For those of...

Easter and Passover

Like all Brits, I’m enjoying the summery first of our two back-to-back four-day weekends. But I thought I’d drop by just to say Happy Easter to all my Easter-observing friends, and Happy Passover to all my Passover-observing friends. I’m sort of a...

Novel Writing Tips

Once I returned home from SE Asia, I fell into a whirlwind (or was it a whirlpool) of writing. Novel 3 was in my head, in my dreams, and I awoke each morning and wrote for two hours, even before grabbing a cup of coffee. Things have calmed down a bit, although I am...

Dance Music

I’m flying back to London today after a quick trip to Boston. The weekend was full of meetings, talking, seeing family, ridiculous weather and…dancing! Number 2 Son’s band played at a dinner for UK kids preparing to finish college – a proper...

Poetry Bingo

My very funny, very clever writer friend, J.D. Smith, came up with this game.  In honor (notice the American lack of ‘u’) of April being American poetry month, a season of many readings and very many open mics, J.D. created this Open Mic Bingo board. J.D....