Aliens – Friends or Foe?
The image of visiting aliens as ruthless invaders hell-bent on destroying mankind in order to colonise our little blue planet for themselves, may be good for the Hollywood box-office, but […]
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Why did you do that?
I’m not sure whether there are more strange things happening down here in Cornwall than in the rest of the country, or whether I’m just noticing more of them since […]
Connected Audio Book now available on Audible.com
Following my post a couple of weeks ago about the recording process for the audio book version of Connected, I am delighted to announce that the finished product is now […]
Was Edward Snowden Right?
The recent case of Edward Snowden and his leaking of top-secret government information relating to NSA snooping project, PRISM, has come at an interesting time for me, since the collision […]
What is really happening in Turkey?
Prior to 2008, I had visited Turkey only twice, and both times for business events in Istanbul – the kind of events where sleeping, eating, partying… and of course a […]
What is a Blog Tour and how does it work?
For some time now, the self-publishing world has been buzzing with word of a new promotional vehicle, the Blog Tour. To understand exactly what this is and how it works, […]
Sentience, Morality and Veganism
Following my post last week, questioning the consciousness of newborns, I exchanged a number of tweets with a professor of developmental psychology, who made the interesting observation that, The points you […]
Is self-publishing redefining the rules of book genre?
Like many début authors, I didn’t really think too hard about the genre of my first book until I’d finished writing it. And looking back, with large parts of the story seemingly writing themselves, I’m not […]
The Empathy Continuum – part 2
In the first part of this essay, I briefly introduced the idea of an empathy continuum, before diving straight into what might have seemed like a totally unrelated topic – […]