My blogs

  • Matt Johnson on ‘Writing a sequel – Second Novel Syndrome’

      Stephen Fry put forward an interesting theory about second book syndrome. “The problem with a second novel is that it takes almost no time to write compared with a first novel. “If I write my first novel in a month at the age of 23, and my second novel takes me two years, which Read more

  • Twitter interview with Fraser from @Feedmyreads

    With my focus on writing the sequel to Wicked Game and keeping the marketing plan going, it’s sometimes difficult to find the time to sit down and complete written interviews. Add to this, recent exciting developments that resulted in me signing up with Literary Agents Watson Little and, as I am sure you can imagine, Read more

  • What is SEO?

    SEO is a term that caused me some confusion. As an acronym, it means different things to different people. To me, SEO stands for Senior Executive Officer. So, when I was contacted recently by Sue Duncan and offered some advice about my SEO, I was initially a bit puzzled. I was also interested enough to Read more

  • Diving with seals

    Following my last post, I thought I might describe how the weekend went. The weather was excellent, sunny with an easterly breeze. Stayed in a bed/breakfast in Ilfracombe, Devon although we were ‘ropes off’ at 0730 in the boat so we missed breakfast. In the rush to get on the boat I nearly forgot fins, Read more

  • Going diving (again)

    I wish I had learned to scuba dive many years ago. When my daughter decided she wanted to attempt a degree in marine natural history photography at Falmouth, I ‘volunteered’ to learn to dive with her. That was three years ago. We travelled to Sharm-el-Sheik and learned to dive with Emperor Divers. It was a Read more

  • Why give up on reading a book?

    Thanks to Goodreads for this, makes for interesting and enlightening reading Read more