There’s very little that can beat the buzz of starting work on a new book. I’m not talking about the mental preparation, the character breakdowns, the background searches, the frenetic visualisation - all of which put the fear of God into me. No, it’s the actual writing that is so compulsive. The ‘not knowing where [...]

The idea for my new non-fiction book, Nostradamus & The Third Antichrist: Napoleon, Hitler & ‘The One Still To Come’ [Watkins, March 2011] stemmed naturally from my work on the Complete Nostradamus. It occurred to me, whilst researching that book, that no one had attempted a distillation of all Nostradamus’s quatrains dealing with the Three [...]

There has been an interesting correspondence, both on my blog, by post, and through Amazon, concerning the ending I have given to The Mayan Codex. The problem seems to have arisen largely thanks to the design of the A and B format paperback editions. In both of these, the ending comes plum at the bottom [...]

On Saturday I enjoyed a splendid evening reading my poetry, alongside fellow poets Peter John Cooper and Keith Bennett, as part of the Bournemouth Literary Festival’s Poetry Mash Up. I still don’t quite understand what a poetry mash up is, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The audience at the Winchester Pub were both attentive and [...]

A busy week, which has taken us up to 27 foreign rights sales for The Nostradamus Prophecies, with Turkey, Denmark, and even Indonesia [something of a first, I gather], coming on board. You win some, you lose some, however, and I have a true story to tell you - a story which may well serve [...]