Boats Against The Current

3 Ways To Improve Your Writing

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘practice makes perfect’, and whilst perfection itself may not be achievable, I think we can… Read more »

So I finally finished the Darker Shade of Magic series, about a million years after everyone else! Hooray! You can check out… Read more »

Three years ago today I set up this blog and pressed publish on my ever first post. My theme was… Read more »

The Goodreads Challenge is something I’ve been aware of for a long time: after all, almost every book blogger I… Read more »

As writers, we’re constantly coming up with fresh story ideas, and inevitably some of them will be absolute gold, whilst… Read more »

Lately I’ve been loving crime and thriller novels, and two of my absolute favourites have been by Claire Mackintosh: I Let… Read more »

So the month of June has been fairly uneventful for me. For the most part the weather here has been… Read more »

Recently whilst I was perusing Amazon for something new to read, I spotted a new trend: e-shorts. That is short stories… Read more »

It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a hobby maniac, or a ‘serial hobbyist‘ as I’ve previously referred to… Read more »

Historical fiction is easily one of my favourite genres, and so I’ve been very lucky recently to have read some… Read more »