Jon Sparks

“It is not down in any map;. true places never are”. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. Regular readers will be well aware of my reverence for...

As the world held its breath for 'Vows and Watersheds', I found myself thinking back to the first thing I ever got published in a proper...

A few thoughts about an author who had a significant influence on me from an early age. I'm prompted to write this now because I've been...

For anyone unfamiliar with writerly jargon, there's often said to be a divide between 'plotters' and 'pantsers'. Plotting or 'outlining'...