Author: richardmapes

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } Well we did it. We spent Burns night with a bunch of strangers. And let me tell you now, it was delightful. Naturally, we were late. We...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } By the time you read this, it will be the day after Burns’ night. I will be celebrating this, along with a good number of my fellow...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } I’ve been given thought recently to the number of people setting themselves reading challenges for 2016. And that thought was, when did reading become a challenge rather...

Recently, I have begun to tweet. I am quite behind the curve on this. Many of my friends have been tweeting for ages. Some of them even digg and vine, although I suspect they’re...

Well, the book launch went off without a hitch last night. Champagne was consumed, carefully selected passages were read out, and everyone generously tittered in all the right places. Now starts the long journey...

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. Three Men On Tour goes on sale tomorrow. I received the hard copies this morning. You can buy them for kindle or paperback at...

I’ll start this months blog with a question: who introduced skiing to Switzerland? I’ll give you until the end of the post to work it out. The reason I find myself in such a...

It’s been a while since I last posted. Life got in the way as they say. I haven’t, however, been idle. For a start, I’ve been hard at work on my novel – Three...

So I was wrong. It turns out I could merge the old and new, and end up with something better than the sum of its parts. A wolf and his boy is up on...

Okay, more dilemmas related to the wolf and his boy story I talked about in my last post. I’ve now got the story complete and with a certain amount of polish (nowhere near enough,...