Blogging on … again

Bridging the gap ...
Bridging the gap …

Here I am again and with my new theme. There was nothing wrong with the previous look but I thought that having updated my website http://www.tom-benson.co.uk/ it might be a good idea to freshen up the blog. I’ve shaken off the domain name I had but it has taken some work on my behalf.

The suppliers of my domain were decent enough when I contacted them to say I didn’t want to pay the price of a business site, extra email addresses, extra website and goodness knows how many other things I didn’t need. They didn’t explain that my blog was inextricably linked to the domain name I was trying to shrug off.

After contacting the supplier directly I was unable to log into my blog unless I went via the WordPress Support pages. In the end, following the information supplied by the guys at WordPress I’ve been able to start a new blog and transfer almost everything over.

Here we are then with a new look and this introductory waffle – which you’ll be pleased to know is about to end. My next post which will appear tomorrow, will be about reading and writing.

A Grave Mistake – or not?

Today I published my latest short story, ‘A Grave Mistake’, here, on my website: www.tom-benson.co.uk/ and on www.readwave.com .

The story is about a young policeman who feels he can do things in his own unorthodox way, but his plan fails …

St. Bartholomew's
St. Bartholomew’s

In my own case, I’m presently working on the next draft of my thriller, ‘Hawk – A Manhunter’ and it’s going well. Recently I was inspired to write a tale about a romance in Amsterdam. I’ve taken the idea further than I had intended and it is now taking the shape of a novel in first draft. The tale is titled, ‘Discovering Amsterdam’, but for now I’ll keep the plot under wraps.

Is it wise to write two novels simultaneously, I asked myself a few days ago. It feels like it should work because they are of different genre, so they shouldn’t interfere with each other in terms of thought process. I suppose as always, time will tell.

In other news I updated my website with a total revamp. The theme is now ‘pen and diary’ and it looks much better.

I was delighted to see that a few days ago I received a **** rated review on my ‘Natural History’ Volume 3 of my poetry series which is on sale on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk