We’re Back!! But first of all a big apology – regular visitors will have noticed that I haven’t been updating the site as regularly as I use to, put it down to family and work commitments. Those little problems are passed me now and everything should be plain sailing from here on in.

Regular readers will also have noticed that look of the site has changed from a pretty standard WordPress layout to a vibrant Magazine Theme – I suppose this is more in keeping with a writer site anyway. Let me give you a brief walk though of how the present site is laid out.

This section that you’re reading now is really the notice board and like any notice board it is designed to draw your attention to a specific issue and like any notice board you can’t really predict what it will show – sometimes it could be a major news story, sometimes a human interest story, sometimes it could be an important message, just like this one. A section which changes as the need arises.

The left hand corner we are keeping primarily for book reviews. They need not necessarily be new releases they are just books which we want to write about for one reason or another. We’ve always wanted to encourage our readers to post in this blog so if you fancy reviewing a book then have a go. Usual restrictions apply, of course, no adult content and while you are most welcome to give a critical review remember there is a libel law. So start reviewing. One final point here, I said at the top of this paragraph that the section was, ‘primarily for book reviews,’ from time to time we will review other things e.g. Sony’s new electronic book reader.

The centre column hosts the last contest that we’ve received information about for the next three months: e.g. Dec. Jan, and Feb. It also leads you into the last post for our ‘writing articles/tips’ section and our ‘resource’ section. Again they’ll display the latest post in that particular section.

Moving on the right column here’s where you will get a complete listing of all current writing contests that we know about – organized on a monthly basis.

The archives, as you can guess will let you know what we’ve been on about since adopting a blog outlay.

From time to time we’ve written articles that we fell you might like to visit on a regular basis, you’ll find them in our pages section.

One final word – well maybe two, this is a new outlay for our site so don’t be to surprised if over the next few weeks things change slightly. And finally we really would appreciate posts from you – feel free to post.

Kevin