On my drive back home from Northumberland, I stop at a 17th century aristocracy retreat in Derbyshire, Bolsover Castle…

I have a lazy day, drinking coffee and reading in Northumberland…

Today’s podcast was recorded within the ruins of the Priory on Lindisfarne…

I record today’s podcast at a Roman Hillport along Hadrian’s wall…

Hopefully, as you listen to this, I’m driving up to Northumberland for a little holiday. In the meantime please take a listen to the first seven minutes of a new ambient reading (audiobook with sound effects) of a book in the Bow Street Society Casebook series. To listen to the whole story, click here:

https://youtu.be/Pz4Bb8QOygI?si=ICDCV2hltFwdcHPP

And for more information on The Bow Street Society generally, click here:

https://bowstreetsociety.com

I talk about my favourite topic, Doctor Who, and the 97 missing episodes…

I talk about what I have been doing to prepare my submissions package for “Still Life” and separately about submitting “The English Hikikomori” to literary agents.

I finally get around to setting myself some targets and goals for this month…

A trailer for “The Diary of a Wannabe Writer” made in July 2025.

I talk about signing off the final two chapters of “Empress Of The Trees,” about why I nearly went on holiday today but didn’t, and how trying to create a preview hardback of the book for me to read using Amazons Kindle Direct Publishing was a bit like having all my teeth pulled out. Without anaesthetic.