So here I am, sitting at the keyboard again. Another quick update on progress for you all. The book editing is going slowly. I admit it, I have been distracted by the need (?), desire (?) to create a wider social media presence, all while still not having finished the first book in final edited form. I have a focus issue. I spent some time listening to a range of views on how to get your book marketed and the majority of the advice is all...set up a website...post continuousl

So you have been granted a super power of your choice. What do you choose? What's that, flight. No, invisibility. No, super strength. Or super speed. All the usual suspects, but why not super intelligence? Why not have the brain of many Einsteins all rolled into one? Well...apart from the fact it would seem to make you very nerdy and without extra enhancements you would be at the mercy of all the other people who are stronger, faster, tougher than you. In fact, every bully w

I wanted to talk about how hard (or easy) it might be to write superhero stories and cover the action scenes in it. And as a heads up, in my view it's hard! You will all have seen movies like (say) The Avengers, or Spiderman. The heroes swing, leap, run, jump, walk, duck, dodge, punch, hit, slam, etc. etc. etc. The same with tv shows like the old Batman 1960's show, in which Batman and Robin hit their opponents with a big KAPOW. Great viewing but it doesn't easily translate i