Writing Is Easy. Storytelling isn't. Hands down, Jesse Clayton is one of my greatest achievements. It was a great bit of fun and a great...

Just in time for Christmas, Clayton is back in paperback form for those who are wary of technology or just don't know how to operate a...

Jesse's Back, Folks His long-awaited fourth outing has finally hit Kindle stores. Thanks to Dusty Saddle Publishing' s announcement,...

It's been a busy fortnight putting the final touches on Jesse Clayton's fourth adventure, but I can now say he's back on the trails!...

I'm back with my massive mug, this time to talk about metafiction and just what in the hell it is exactly. You may not even have heard of...

Hello again from me and my mug. We've had a look at opening a story, but what about closing it? How do we make sure our endings are the...

Show Don’t Tell is a technique used in pretty much every form of creative writing. It is a skill that once mastered will take your...

Greetings from me and my massive mug. Stories live and die on their opening pages, their opening sentences even. Suppose you go into...

Howdy, y'all! For those of you eager for the next Jesse Clayton adventure, apologies for the big delay. But, with over a year now passing...

We all get it sometimes. That feeling of frustration when there's about a million things to do and seemingly no time to do them. It can...

An adaptation, and the extent of its success, is always a fun subject for debate. And often quite a controversial one when it comes to...

A while back I got to sit down with the team behind the upcoming indie action adventure game, Nanuka. While I'm trawling through the...

And here we are at the end of this ambitious little run. I thought it would be easier than it was, but a whole lot of research, writing,...

Reading is a bit of a sticky subject nowadays. It seems to be becoming less popular among adults and children—particularly those in...

Once again I've gone digging through the history of gaming for my Retro Treasures column for Gamespew . Only this time, I unearthed a...

After the last article's cliff hanger, here's a taste of part two--how the dictionary came to be and how it brought law and order to an...

In the first of a three part series for Oxford Open Learning, I may have bitten off a little more than I could chew with this endeavour....

Another highlight from my contributing to Gamespew , this time I took a look back to the game that started a genre 40 years before it was...

This year, I've been chasing a dream alongside my freelancing. I'm a big fan of entertainment media and games in particular, and I've...

This year, I've been a regular contributor for GameSpew, an independent gaming news outlet online run by some great people and delivering...