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What Do We Do About Art? There’s Always a Little Shop At The End
What do we do about art when we wander around great art galleries and museums? How I integrate art into my own life, on the wall of my writing space (photo credit Jamie Robinson) We see wonderful...
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200 Years of Australian Art at the Royal Academy: Connections Between...
From indigenous art through to ‘discovery’ by European explorers, the arrival of the first British settlers, dismay, denial and idealization, to acceptance, new understanding and redemption, this...
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Mystical Circles Kindle Countdown Deal; A Passionate Spirit Follows Fast!
Mystical Circles is on Kindle Countdown Deal for seven days. On 21 November the price drops to 99p. Mystical Circles cover image Two days later it steps up to £1.99. And on 25 November it returns to...
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Lovely Lake District in Autumn 2013
We spent a few days in England’s lovely Lake District during the recent autumn half term. Ashness Bridge, near Derwentwater (photo credit Abigail Robinson) The Lake District is special to me, not only...
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Kairos Moments in Life – Broken Priests and More Insights from BBC TV sitcom...
As I think again about the BBC TV sitcom Rev the word wrecked comes to my mind. Steve Evets as Colin in Rev photo credit bbc.co.uk Probably my favourite character in Rev is Colin the local vagrant,...
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Do Novelists Have an Agenda or a Moral Purpose?
This morning on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week programme I listened to a fascinating panel discussion from the Charleston Festival. Tom Sutcliffe questioned four novelists: Tim Winton, Nicola Barker,...
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Book Review: “Earthed” published by Mystic Christ Press: Bridging the Gap...
This fascinating book came into my hands because I belong to a Facebook group called Mystic Christ and heard about the publication of this collection of essays by authors with both Christian...
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Ghostly Encounters, Earthbound Spirits and a Promise of Love
Recently my sister in Australia sent me a set of DVDs – ironically made in England, containing a documentary series on Great British Ghosts narrated by Michaela Strachan for the BBC. The set also...
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Words From A Cave – Part 2
Mulu Caves, Malaysia Since last week’s post I’m starting to see the light flooding through into my cave. I’m moving around on my crutches (and sometimes without them.) I went to the Maundy Thursday,...
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The Creative Power of an Intense Group of People in the Hothouse Environment...
Mystical Circles by SC Skillman I’ve now finished my series of Cave posts as new inspiration has intervened! One of my fellow bloggers Lance Greenfield has just opened up thoughts of writers retreats...
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Action Adventure Tropes and Powerful Archetypes in Stories
I love to see how tropes specific to certain genres of story telling can cross boundaries into different genres. one author’s question about story tropes One example came to my mind recently whilst...
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The Power of Light to Uplift the Spirit and Transform a Dark World
Add light to any situation, and it changes dramatically. I have often thought the Shard in London looks like a mystical tower. Here in this view it certainly lives up to this image! Highlight one...
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A Passionate Spirit 99p on Kindle from 1 April for 1 week only
My publisher Matador have just dropped the price of my kindle ebook for one week. Take the chance to snap up my new paranormal thriller “A Passionate Spirit” on Kindle at the special price of 99p. The...
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Staying Focused as a Writer: Learning From Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, the author of the novel widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest, War and Peace, not only crafted characters we love and care about – Pierre, Natasha, Anna Karenina, and many...
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Spiritual and Unifying: the Dramatic and Emotional Appeal of Brahms’ Requiem...
King Henry VIII School, Coventry (well known as representing Gordon Shakespeare’s school in the 2009 Christmas film Nativity!) was the scene on Saturday where a large number of local singers and...
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New Book: Spirit of Warwickshire
Now I’ve begun work on my new book Spirit of Warwickshire, here’s a taster of what you’ll find in it. The book, which I plan to release later this year with Luminarie, will contain a selection of...
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The Power of a Picture: the Burton Dasset Hills Country Park, Warwickshire
It’s said that an image is much more powerful than words; which is rather a shame for authors who write books that don’t have any pictures! And so an author’s alternative is to paint a picture with...
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The National Portrait Gallery, London: a Cloud of Masters and Witnesses
At the National Portrait Gallery recently, as I wandered through the Victorian and Twentieth Century and Contemporary Galleries, I realised that I was surrounded by all the most amazing people who have...
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Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent: ‘I Object’ Exhibition at the British Museum...
Free will means that even in the most totalitarian regime, individuals keep within their hearts and minds their secret thoughts and views: but with ingenuity they will find a way of expressing it. “I...
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Book Review: “Paul: a Biography” by Tom Wright
This is a thorough, vivid and enlightening book about Paul the Apostle, otherwise known as St Paul. Tom Wright opens up for us the amazing personality of Paul: formidable, intellectual, resilient,...
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