Daily writing prompt What does it mean to be a good person? View all responses Now, with this, your mileage will obviously vary. There are a variety of opinions on what being kind, compassion, and generally good look like. I certainly have my own views, and I doubt I will gain universal consensus on those views, but here goes anyway...

Daily writing prompt What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by? View all responses My aim with mantras is simple. Treat others with kindness and respect, because that's how I would like to be treated, but also because it's simply the right thing to do. I do not discriminate along racial, gender or ethnic lines. Everyone is treated the same, and everyone is treated as an individual.

If your author email inbox (or spam folder) is filled with messages supposedly from big name authors (or agents and publishers), emails from randos asking to beta read your book, or out-of-the-blue invitations to feature your book in their book cl...

So, here we are. September is winding down, but how has the month gone? Strange Flattery What to make of this?! Two weeks ago I received an email about my books. This is not unusual; I receive many emails about my books, and they are almost always some sort of scam effort. What was unusual is that this email was an offer to share a tribute site about…

The Meerkat Q&A will hopefully be a multi-blog movement. I’ll put a question out there (I don’t know if I’ll do this once a week or once every couple of weeks, we shall see), and anyone who is …

Over on Twitter, there's been a spate of people - though 'people' is a generous term, because they read like bots - praising an awful, uncanny valley 'trailer' for a Duck Tales movie. As a huge fan of Duck Tales, I had to voice my objections to this. The absurdists are issuing their usual statements. 'Hollywood is cooked!', they boldly proclaim.

Daily writing prompt How do you write what people actually want to read? View all responses Simply put: I don't. I don't set out to write anything that I expect anyone else to read, or to want to read, at least where blogging is concerned. I write about what interests, intrigues and irritates me. I share a glimpse into this meerkat's life.

Privatisation has failed.

As ever, the formidable Bruce Gerencser has hit the nail on the head where Republicans and Trump are concerned. Trump' $5,000 plan is likely to cost the US taxpayer greatly, and it is ironic that a party trumpeting socialist/communist plots is now redistributing taxpayer's money in such a manner. Of course, Trump's worshippers are spinning this in a different direction (because why would they apply the same standards to Republicans…