Is there a name, do you know, for when you are perfectly capable of getting to sleep but just can’t be arsed? Elective insomnia? Napathy? I only ask because I’ve been suffering it for about a month now and it’s making me exhausted.
I half-assume there’s some root cause to it but then I remember [...]

Col. Jessep: You want answers?Kaffee: I think I’m entitled.Col. Jessep: You want answers?Kaffee: I want the truth.Col. Jessep: You can’t handle the truth.
- A Few Good Men
Quick story from earlier in the week, while I remember.
We were standing in the Jewel Bar – Robert and me – enjoying a post-pub quiz drink. The Jewel [...]

A few days ago, Techcrunch broke the news that Hasbro – the makers of Scrabble – are suing the makers of the Scrabulous Facebook app for breach of copyright.
As I’ve mentioned on here before, I’m a huge fan of Scrabulous. In fact, I probably lose more hours to that than I do to hangovers. [...]

A quick Update: to earlier. As if on cue, I just received an email from my editor at Orion. Given how far off the original brief the book ended up being, I was slightly sick with worry that he’d hate hate hate it. But he didn’t. He likes likes likes it. And he laughed at [...]

I finally finished it on Friday, the book.
It was an odd experience, writing a story that hasn’t finished happening yet – a bit like directing a thriller without knowing what the twist at the end will turn out to be.
But it was also exciting and – like school, I can say this only [...]