We’ve had a visitor this week, so we went to the southern tip of the island to see the Fuencaliente salt works. Chai Latte enjoyed the suitcase so much that our visitor kindly left it open for her, and she spent so much time in it that we think that once our visitor leaves, we should let her have one of ours to sleep in. I got one SF short…

I’ve been busy with a translation, a short story competition, and preparing for a new tour guiding job. We also have a visitor, so I’ve been rather busy lately. It should get calmer again soon.

I live on the east of the island, so I get to see sunrises, but the sun sets well behind the ridge of mountains so I never see the sunset from home. I saw this one from my friends’ house. I’ve written 3,500 words of the first draft of Pinch Me, and I have one new article on Medium.com: Cliché-free Description: The Cat’s Meow

Writing on Medium.com clearly isn’t going to make me rich, and it will be some time before tour guiding so I’ve spent much of this week trying to work out how to make some income in the short term. I’m going to look for work as a technical writer. With hindsight, every time I did some tech writing back in my software engineering days, people always said it was good,…

Ros Kind is a long-term email friend, prolific writer, and my mentor for book marketing. Of course, the first requirement for book marketing is to have a good book to sell, and Ros has a new one. Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from and when did you start writing? I was born in a place called South Wigston which is four miles south of Leicester city…