I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished..

I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which….

My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember ….

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time..

In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily,….

What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I just looked it up - that "Trials have provided some of the ….

When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tas….

I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it….

My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a pas….

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time..

Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. A….

These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another..

I'm always impressed that as we go through life most of the stuff we do doesn't matter that much, at least not ostensibly: you go to the grocery stor….

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort..