If Jonathan Swift made you laugh then maybe John Horgan will... at least he will help you realise that most science fiction is generally much more likely than many current scientific theories.

http://www.biggayread.com

The Big Gay Read (link above) was launched yesterday to find the nation's favourite gay / lesbian book.

My book, The Lodger, is listed in the 'Further Reading' section - along with many others. It was nice to be mentioned.

(Some reviews of The Lodger here http://freespace.virgin.net/d.gummerson/review.html on my website if anyone is interested.)

And you can vote for your favourite gay book now or over the coming months.

Hey all. Have missed being on here so regularly since leaving job and all... anyone who has been emailing me at my council email will have had no success, so go back to hotmail where I still can be found, if only for half an hour a few times a week.

All change on the fergal front. I may well be moving to the big city (that's London, not Ipswich) in the not so distant future.

There is some brilliant stuff on here at the moment, and the new site is brill. I hope to be on here more regularly very soon, and have a big reading session.

Hey all,

I'm currently working on a novel and I've added the first two chapters here, if you could leave me feedback it would be very much appreciated, and not sure about Chapter 2 currently myself.

The Novels titled "The Nightcomers" and is availible at http://www.abctales.com/ukrob12/the_nightcomers

Thanks,
Rob

Avoid buying hefty guides! Try typing in "too many new writers" into Google (using the inverted commas,) and harvest a list of all the possible pitfalls you could fall into. I'm particularly grateful for the following sage warning:

"Too many new writers worry about what they have to do to get free trips. What they
should worry about is getting published."

That's set me straight!

I don't know where else to go, for information. Having just spoken to my tenant support worker from The Alcohol Recovery Project, she tells me that for all of Camden (Largest Borough in the country) there are ten social workers for drug addicts in the borough and just One for alcoholics. Now I remember reading somewhere that pro rata the death rate for alcoholics was 100 to 1 in favour (sic) of alcoholics. My experience in Oxford was the same. In the drug/alcohol project I attended the main focus was on drug addiction.