I was in London last Friday to read from my book, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (published by Ward Wood) at the Polari Literary Salon at the Southbank Centre. As I was walking to Lewes station to catch my train, a…
After my incarceration at home with a lung infection, I’m wrapping up against the weather and getting a taxi to Brighton’s Latest Music Bar for this evening’s Have A Word, Brighton’s rather smart literary review where I shall be reading from…
Shauna Gilligan My fellow Ward Wood novelist, Shauna Gilligan has asked me to join The Writing Process Blog Tour where each writer answers four questions about the writing process and then passes the baton on to another set of writer-bloggers.…
Brighton’s West Pier, 5th February 2014 We had some gale force winds in the UK on Wednesday. I lost two tiles from my roof in Lewes, but things were far worse down the road at Brighton’s lovely old West Pier,…
I’m not getting out of the house very much at the moment due to an annoying lung problem that means that I’m labouring under the influence of some particularly strong anti-biotics. So I haven’t been in to Brighton, just six…
Yesterday I showed you the first half of my life in 2013, a year which was dominated by my two novels – one about to be published and the other finished just in time for Christmas. Most of my time…
I’m excited to find out that my novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love is now available on Kindle and that the publishers are selling it at a special festive price for a limited period. If you want to order it…
I was up in London on Tuesday evening for a bit of performing at the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road – well, anyone who knows me thinks I’m a bit of a show-off so I’m sure you’re not surprised…
I’ve always, well nearly always, liked getting letters and parcels through my letterbox. I do the usual thing and ignore the ones that look like bills or circulars and, sometimes, feel sad when I get postcards addressed to former owners…
This ‘self-portrait’ photograph was taken by the young Portuguese photographer Luis Alvarenga, who likes to record his travels around the World with images of his feet, the part of the body designed to allow us to travel. Here he is…