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Code 8: An interesting take on the Superpowers genre that falls a little flat

Code 8 is one of those movies that you’ve never really heard of until it pops up in your Netflix recommendations, so you give it a go.

It’s set in a world where people have “superpowers”—extraordinary strength, healing powers, telekinesis and control over electricity, heat and cold. Initially, these people were employed in roles to take advantage of their powers but eventually, automation replaced many of these jobs, leaving the “Powered” out of work and increasingly on the margins of soc...

Are there any Premier League Clubs still wholly British owned?

I’ve imported some older blog posts of mine from other blogs into this one and going through them I came across this post from 2010 on the sale of Blackburn Rovers to the Indian chicken farmers, the Venkey’s Group. (Please ignore the slightly racist headline on the post – I was younger and a bit stupid back then)

In the post, I note the Rovers were going to join eight other Premier League Clubs wholly-owned abroad and three more partly owned off-shore.

I also mention my belief that Steve M...

Cummings can drop as many bombs as he likes on Wednesday – But the people that need to listen, won’t care

First off, let’s be clear about this, Dominic Cummings isn’t the Good Guy here. He’s not on the side of the angels. He’s, I’m afraid, not on your side. Just because he’s likely to start throwing hand grenades at the Worst Prime Minister in History(TM) doesn’t make up for the fact that this is the guy who travelled to Barnard Castle despite national lockdown rules in order to test his eyesight to see if it was up to driving the length of the country (also during the national lockdown).

Nor...

End of an Era – #ThankYouNuno

I’m in shock. I was going to write a piece this weekend analysing what ‘went wrong’ this year at Wolves, but that no longer seems appropriate—at least, not in the short term.

Nuno is leaving. The Bearded Portuguese Messiah who united our club in a way very few managers have ever done and not only led us back to the promised land of the Premier League but also to our best ever Premier League finish and best top-flight finish since 1980—twice—and a run in European competition for the first ...

Jupiter’s Legacy: Super-Slow Superhero series that fails to save the day

Superhero movies & TV shows have been all the rage for well over a decade now. Jupiter’s Legacy, a Netflix original, is the latest offering in the genre. Having now been able to watch the series, here I offer up my thoughts on the show.

There’s a debate to be had about the origins of what seems in 2021 to be the ubiquitous nature of superhero films & TV series. Christopher Reeve’s Superman in the late 70s/early 80s was well ahead of its time & I remember queuing up with my friends outside...

2020/21 – The Season that Football will want to Forget

Let’s be honest, it’s been a bit shit, hasn’t it?

I’m not just talking about the thoroughly disappointing season that Wolves have had this year after three of the best seasons in my thirty-odd years as a supporter—I’m talking about football in general. It’s just been a bit shit. From the lack of crowds to the burned-out players leading to a higher than usual injury rate, to the utterly abysmal way in which VAR seems to be getting worse, not better and the over-saturation of coverage of TV...

The Truths We Live – ARC Request Form

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The Wait is Over

The Truths We Live—the very much long-awaited sequel to 2015’s The Lies We Lead—will hit Amazon Kindle devices on 4th April 2021.

That’s one Month from today.

One Month.

Pre-orders are live right now. And I’ll be releasing details of how reviewers can sign up for an Advanced Reader Copy this weekend.

Are you ready to dive back into Bobby and Emma’s world? (Or should that be dive into Dick & Kitty’s world?)

04 – 04 – 2021

#LoveMatters

Target Met!

I’m happy to say that I met my self-imposed target of completing the first full read-through of The Truths We Live by this weekend with ease. I actually completed the read-through on Thursday evening.

That means that I now have a Word manuscript that’s about as clean as I think I can make it on my own, complete with fake tweets & text messages as needed. The next step is to seek some beta-readers to give me their opinion of it so I can work out if I need to make any changes to the structu...

Fake Social Media in eBooks

If you read yesterday’s post, you’ll know that my current goal to do a full read through/edit of the first draft of The Truths We Live. As part of this one thing I’m doing is adding fake tweets and text messages to the manuscript. These will carry through into the eBook and while it will make the eBook file larger to do this, I hope it will add to the experience of reading it.

There’s quite a bit of ‘banter’ between some of the characters on Twitter early on in the book. Here’s one exchange I...