There's nothing quite like taking control of a collection of fictional people in your computer to make you feel more grounded and in charge.

With little fanfare brought on from more than a little pandemic fatigue, I released 99 Random Questions to Ask Your Characters.

Oh, wow, it's June. As you might've noticed, I completely lost the plot over March and April, so we'll need to consider this a MAM round-up.

More than 12 months down the line, I've taken definite steps to improve my writing routines and habits.

For me, the most important part of any online project management software (and I've tried a few by now) is that downtime is limited.

No kidding, it's difficult to write and edit when the world looks the way it does right now.

I'm henceforth not in charge of choosing my own reading material.

Time for an accountability check or, as it turns out, an examination of failure!

I wouldn't categorise myself as a traditional lesbian romance author. My characters are too contrary for that.

I'm finally following up on that promise I made more than a month ago - to properly introduce readers to my new kittens.

National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) is on the horizon. Actually, it's not on the horizon - it's rushing towards us at a clip.

2020: the year the world as we knew it splintered into something else.

You might've heard of the #ReclaimHerName project undertaken by the Women's Prize for Fiction.

If you can't come to a lesbian fiction hangout, the hangout will come to you. That's a way of describing what's happening next weekend.

The things many of us take for granted (reliable internet access and as many research books as we need) are luxuries for some writers.

When I set up my reading challenge on Goodreads for 2020, I was determined to beat last year's total of 77 books.

As you might guess from my forays into Westminster politics with Valerie and Amy, our legislators fascinate me.

Before the pandemic, me and my wife had scrapped our Netflix subscription in favour of a BritBox one, and it's definitely come in useful.

For me, "writing what you know" is more about delving into the emotions you know and the things that interest you.

I think something in my mindset has shifted again in the last month because I’m finding it harder than before to concentrate.