

Designing a symbolic book cover the DIY way.
When I decided to take the self-publishing route I was confronted by the need for a front cover. There was no possibility of hiring a...


WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)? It ain't necessarily so...
When I give birth to a fictional character I want that character to be aware of who they are and to have sense of their personal...


What's in a name?
What's in a name? In fiction it's everything. I'm not going to give away too much by saying why each character in the novel had their...


James MacKinnon is an existentialist.
I have always believed that Mods by their attitude to life tend on the whole to be existentialist. I freely confess I am an...


The Art of Allusion #3 Long after tonight is over I will never forget it....
Chapter 46. “Long after tonight is over I will never forget it. I will always love you, always be yours no matter what,” Effy murmured....


Up lifting novels - the only ones I'm writing.
I've grown weary of reading depressing storylines. There are just too many dispiriting and disheartening novels out there. I can no...


Hardy Amis was right. What every Mod instinctively knows. Image is identity.
One of the reasons I became a Mod back in the antiquity of 1966 was the realization that girls liked well dressed young men. The sharper,...


Until 1929...girls of 12 and boys of 14 could be legally married.
Like most writers I do a lot of research to make my fiction as authentic as possible. I came across this interesting piece of...




