This Writing Life

Novellist Ian Hocking: accidentally best-selling since 2011

Signed by the John Jarrold Literary Agency

Well, m’friends, much has happened over the past two weeks. It culminated on Friday morning, when a phone call to John Jarrold sealed my fate as the latest addition to the John Jarrold Literary Agency. My steely professionalism prevents me from writing things like “I hope he knows what he’s letting himself in for” but [...]

Cubic Parsec

It is, of course, well known that the density of our galaxy (Milkus Wayus) is approximately one star per cubic parsec. Less commonly known is the fact that ‘cubic parsec’ is the name of a new blog by Nick Moberly, a mate of mine. The blog covers…well, er, lots of stuff. Nick is a psychologist [...]