My new fairy tale
I’ve just published a new fairy tale and it’s called The Wind and the Castle. It was inspired by the strange fairy tales of Hermann Hesse. It’s my first eBook and putting it together was a scary adventure as an inner voice kept saying “you can’t do this.” Fortunately...
read more5 Reasons to Publish an eBook
There's a ton of material online about how to publish an ebook and I've been rummaging through it for ages. Some of it's quite confusing but if I can understand it, anyone can. I'll publish my first ebook (a fairy tale) soon and that, I'm sure, will be my best...
read moreCambridge Analytica and my Ethical Code
Journalism works like this: a story "breaks" and all the media channels start writing (or talking) about it. For a few days it's all over the media. Then it's forgotten. An interesting question is: who says what stories are relevant? But I'm not going to get into that...
read moreMy First Day at School
How long can I stand in the burn until my feet go numb? Too long. Better to keep throwing stones into the deep bit. Maybe I'll wake up a fish. I wonder where all this water comes from? Up that hill I suppose. I can hear Daddy shouting my name. What does he want? It's...
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Advice for the new Secretary of State for International Development (DFID)
This article about DFID was first published in the Scottish newspaper The National (a paper which supports Scottish independence, which I don't, but they also support freelance journalism which I do). * The London media have said little of interest about Penny...
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