It's the 3rd of November 2025. Fifty-eight years ago today, ITV broadcast The General, the sixth episode of The Prisoner to be screened, adn the one where Number Six defeats the Village's indoctrinating supercomputer with a simple three letter question that it can't answer: W-H-Y-? But there's another unanswerable question posed by The Prisoner: Why … Continue reading Solving The Prisoner Puzzle

The Paradox Club Book 8 - The League of Temporal Gentlemen - is the book that begins Phase Two of the Paradox Club series. The cover features John Smith the Chronomancer and Captain Moore, head of the League. In planning the series, before I had even started writing the first book, I took my inspiration … Continue reading Writing Book 8

When I published my first Paradox Club book back in 2020. I deliberately went with a Text Based Cover to avoid the mantrap that is looking for just the right over image, something that can eat up hours of your time. Not to mention the challenge of constantly finding cover images with a consistent look, … Continue reading New Book Cover Design!

The Paradox Club Book Seven - Future Times Past - is the book that closes out what, in my head, I've always viewed as Phase One of the Paradox Club series. I took my inspiration from the MCU, viewing the entire series as being in three Phases. Phase One is the first seven books in … Continue reading Writing Book 7

The plan for Paradox Club Book Six - Valentine And Milo - was for it to be the book where they become reluctant time travellers, setting out on the path that will eventually lead to them defeating Leviathan in the future. It didn't quite work out like that, though... This book, like all the others … Continue reading Writing Book 6

Self Publishing isn't just about the creative act of writing a book or getting to grips with the technical side of putting your words online and in print. Every self-published author has to navigate the swamp of self indulgence that is The Book Cover. And some navigate it better than others... We've all seen them … Continue reading New Book Covers!