Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Freelance writer and content producer at Very Meta.
As you perhaps know, these days I run my own freelance content studio. That means lots of writing for clients, but also a fair bit of podcasting, video making and workshop running too. One of my current projects is for a Sheffield agency called Content OD. I’m helping them out with their own marketing and […]
There is no easy way to quickly convert a Google Doc into Markdown or HTML using Google’s built-in tools. This reality previously made me sad on a near-daily basis. Just thinking about all those hours lost to copy and pasting into other apps, fixing formatting problems and reinserting links brings a tear to my eye. […]
I reread Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale earlier this year and my goodness, it felt more pertinent and devastating this time around. It is brilliant. Beautifully written. A powerful and painful experience that I highly recommend. I first read The Handmaid’s Tale – ooh, what? – almost 20 years ago. It was one of the […]
It was National Flash Fiction Day over the weekend. Apparently. I don’t really know what that means, but it does give me an excuse to publish this piece of tiny fiction that I wrote a while ago. It was brought to life by my designer-pal, drawer-friend and all-round maker of things, Rich Wells. He tricked […]
Like many 70-year-old men from the north of England, my dad isn’t one for emotions. I don’t recall him ever telling me that he loves me. Compliments are always thin on the ground. So like many children of 70-year-old men from the north of England, I have to assume that a) he does, and b) […]
