Tag: Roland Kendall
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Book trailer video for Crossing Live
My new book trailer video for Crossing Live is now available on Youtube. It’s embedded here, if you’d like to take a look.
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Using music to imagine my way into a scene
Music has always played an important part in my writing process. It keeps me company during the long hours of staring at a blank screen. And it helps me block out the external world when the words finally begin to flow. I often use it to imagine my way into a particular scene. And it’s…
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Artificial Intelligence isn’t taking our jobs, it’s deciding who gets them.
Robots aren’t interested in taking our jobs after all. They’ve skipped that basic rung of the career ladder and have gone straight into management and consultancy instead. Artificial Intelligence, the Guardian reports, is now being used to decide which of us is going to fill that job vacancy. A.I. is taking over the world of…
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How the architecture of Queenslander houses influenced the plot of Crossing Live.
Some of the key scenes in Crossing Live take place in or around the home of Roland Kendall. His house isn’t described in detail in the book – I wanted to leave it as much as possible to the reader’s imagination. But a reader who isn’t familiar with Queenslander houses recently asked me about the…