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Into the Smog
Christmas is coming and so is the smog and Tommy has to make his way to school through the biggest pea-souper of…
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The Flying Bench Press
The Flying Bench Press – Excerpt from Rebecca’s Secrets Tommy faces his greatest fear in the school gym. The one lesson I…
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Best and Borrowed Clothes
Best and Borrowed Clothes – Excerpt from Rebecca’s Secrets Tommy has an interview at the Grammar School. On the morning of the…
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Interview Your Characters
In Twice Born, Tom Archer meets a Faerie in the Hoodown Woods behind his Devon cottage. I needed to invent a Faerie…
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How the Faeries Saved my Sanity
A reader asked me, “Why write a book about Faeries?” A good question. The answer is I had to! I didn’t invent…
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Your One Liner Biography
If you want to write from the well of your own authentic experience, you need to record that experience as an accessible…
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The Nature of Time
“Can you hop into the past?” I asked. Sapphire said, “Oh yes. We do, constantly.” You see, Thomas, for your sanity, you…
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The Lone Ranger and the Bedspring War
On Saturday mornings our gang always went to the pictures – the Odeon on Mile End Road. Outside the cinema, a snaking…
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The Tunnel of Death
Every year, at the start of the Christmas holidays, we challenged the Ropery Street kids to the Tunnel Race. It was the…
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Naming Willow
Today Sapphire came to me and said, “Let us not talk of time, space, God and spirits, Thomas. Let us talk awhile…
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