Does anyone listen to the radio anymore? Each day I would commute to work on my 65km round trip and listen to the radio. The DJs had...

As we approach 26th January, I was reflecting on the Australian-ness of my novel Darwin’s Wake. Within the story there is unashamedly a...

6pm, Wednesday 1 February Grenville Reserve Hall, Cape Street. Tuart Hill. Join me, author Pete Michell in the celebration of my first...

Artificial intelligence, and robots have come a long way since its early beginnings in the 1950s. From its humble roots as a set of...

A job that I set myself at this time of year is to curate a list of books that I'd like to read over the next twelve months. This year I...

If you’re like me, you always have ambitious goals of reading lots of books each year. Every year I set out with a number of books I plan...

After many years in the dreaming, planning, writing, editing and then writing again it is finally finished. My first novel hits the...

Does every writer (and aspiring writer) suffer from Imposter Syndrome? I feel that I have achieved something by getting the words out of...

In the first instalment of this topic (blog 20/10/22), I mentioned that writing was a possible way to craft a legacy. In this blog, I...

Image: Freestock by Pexels, Thibault Trillet. There are several ways in which I use music in my writing. 1. To create a sense of...

“I write because I would like to live forever” is a quote from the poets.org website. It is attributed to Alvin Feinman, the American...