Umbrella ella ella eh eh eh…

I don’t mind the rain. I have fond memories of being in my bed in Wales on a cold Sunday morning listening to the rain tap against the window. I would open the curtains and see the grey clouds obscuring the tops of the Cambrian Mountains and hide under the duvet for another hour or so.
Until [...]

Closed for business

I was sorry to hear that Touch Magazine – a publication which published some of my work and featured artists I was publicising – has shut its doors.
“Rumours are rife throughout the industry today that long running urban magazine Touch has closed its doors…well placed sources have confirmed the news to be true, stating that the [...]

Hey…that’s my intellectual property!

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.

I’m currently looking for work and have found advertisements containing the following:
“please send us your CV with a covering letter, and include some story ideas…”
I went for a job interview a few years [...]

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. (Russel Lynes)

<I couldn’t sleep last night so I plugged in my laptop and began to write. When I next checked the time it was 3am and I’d written 3,000 of some chick-lit style story.  I’m not sure if this is the beginning of a fabulous (and well-paid) career as a writer or just complete nonsense, but thankfully [...]

Freelancing – the editor speaks

I can easily while away a morning on Google searching everything from story ideas to old classmates. In one recent Google session I found an old housemate who is now a secondary school history teacher in England.
When I was Googling this morning I came across an interesting entry posted last September in Shane Hegarty’s blog. The [...]

In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.

This is not my first outing in the world of blogging. In fact this is my third blog, but this is the first my first blog since I was let loose on the world of journalism and my second English language blog.
 
After three years working as a freelance music journalist in London I decided to [...]