In 2020 I was living in Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, in lockdown with my wife – who as a paediatrician continued to work through the pandemic...

Whenever I am talking to students of creative writing about researching a novel, I ask them to consider the following. Rather than poring ov...

As a frontline daily newspaper journalist for more than twenty years, I encountered at first hand dozens of characters that could have walke...

  One. Don't Put Song Lyrics in Your Books. The first draft of my first book  Bloody January  was awash with them. The Rolling Stones si...

January 2019 Bodies are piling up with grisly messages carved into their chests. Rival gangs are ...

At Shots Ezine we’re always looking out for interesting debut novels, and though not a debut novel as such, ‘ The Dead Won’t Sleep ’ is Ann...