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Month: November 2012

The Next Big Thing

I’ve been tagged by the redoubtable novelist Pam Fudge to blog the details of my work-in-progress for the on-line promotional event The Next Big Thing. Here goes … What is the working title of your book? The Butterfly Collector. Where did the idea for the book come from? It was an amalgam of previous relationships, particularly the more volatile ones,…

Eating soul food in Harlem

‘New York, New York, so good they named it twice!’  A visit to the City that never sleeps produces the kind of sensory overload that you never forget, especially when the initial destination happens to be Times Square. Like a huge, neon acid trip, the towers of video screens and flashing lights bemuse and baffle in equal measure. But New York isn’t…