I sent a Valentines* to my editor today in the form of a revised manuscript for The Mannequin Makers . It was a tough fortnight with too lit...

I'm up to my eyeballs in edits for The Mannequin Makers at the mo. W orking to a deadline while working full time and sleeping if and wh...

I’ve named hundreds over people over the last ten years, all of them fictional. Some felt more alive than others. Then my wife got pregnant ...

In May I wrote about how the launch of Spotify in New Zealand had aboosted my waning interest in 'new' music. By new music, I don...

These are the top ten books I read in 2012 (regardless of when they were published). #1 - The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson (2...

So here we are. A new year, a new outlook on life. Mine is courtesy of the two week old screaming in the next room. I'm now a dab han...

I totted up my reading for the year this morning and there were about eight books jostling for the ninth and tenth spots on my top ten reads...

I’ve been MIA for the last couple of weeks. No, the baby hasn’t come yet (due date is tomorrow: 12/12/12, which was always too perfect to ev...