So we have finally reached the end of 2021. When we entered the year, everyone was looking forward to coming out of lockdown and getting...

So, I have finished my first novel Justice for the Dead. The feedback I have had so far has been positive so as mentioned in an earlier...

I finally finished the editing of my very first novel Justice for the Dead. I started it two years ago inspired by a digger in a field...

Prologue Waking up, Adi Albu tentatively looked around her. Good. She was at home. But something wasn’t right. Her brain was more fuzzy...

So we are on day about eleven or twelve of the Lockdown here in the UK, every day merges into one so it's hard to keep count. Lockdown...

So, here we are in the midst of the Corona Virus and people are already starting to panic like the world is going to end. The supermarket...

In the face of the literary world’s ongoing fetish for youth, I often like to remind myself that Gabriel García Márquez didn’t become...

1. You can't just get on a bike and ride it down the street If you've never learnt how to ride a bike, you wouldn't expect to climb onto...

I have just returned from my 2nd holiday in Turkey this year. Love this place so much. Whereas the first holiday here was just that a...

For those of you that know me well, you will already know about my love for the country Turkey. It inspires me more than any other place...

Write about what you know - but you can know almost anything. You just have to do the research. Be bold. Don't write for commercial...

We have had a holiday in Paphos, Cyprus this summer, I have never been before and enjoyed it immensely. I took my notebook and pen but...

I have just returned from Carcassonne in France, it is a beautiful and inspirational place, I had forgotten how much I loved France until...

And so after just a few weeks I am up to almost 30,000 words, I love my story, I hope that my readers will love it just as much. It...

When I have spoken to established fiction authors, one of the main things that they have advised me to do is just write. So, being...

Madeleine L’Engle I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re five or 500. There are three things that are...

Today I have been working on my website all day, I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed producing it. Now that I have...

For those of you wondering why I have decided to write under the name of Francis, I thought that I would explain a little. Seaton is my...

Prologue She awoke to screaming, short, shrill cries of pain, she did not move but lay motionless on the worn, dirty mattress, thankful...

What fabulous weather we are having, far too nice to be sitting in my study writing but if I go outside I will be squinting in the...