Victor. I meant to use the post I did for the NATO Alphabet in 2014, but it was an excerpt about the storm in his book, Bravo Victor, where he hides under his bed. I’m sure I’ve used that recently,
V for Victor in the 2014 and 2017 #AtoZchallenge

Victor. I meant to use the post I did for the NATO Alphabet in 2014, but it was an excerpt about the storm in his book, Bravo Victor, where he hides under his bed. I’m sure I’ve used that recently,
November is the word for N in the NATO alphabet, which is the theme I chose for the A to Z Challenge in 2014. This year I’m doing flashbacks to my seven A2Zs, in honour of the Challenge’s tenth anniversary.
Bravo, Victor. In fact the title of my sixth book is Bravo Victor without any punctuation. My theme for this year’s anniversary A to Z Challenge is Flashbacks. I’m picking posts from my previous seven A to Zs. In 2014
The final post of this year’s A to Z challenge brings me to Zulu. I confess I don’t know much about Zulus. Like many Brits of my age, I think of the Michael Caine film of that name, which depicts
Are you a Yankee? To me an American, To you, New England? Wikipedia has a fascinating entry for the word Yankee. To me, in the UK, and also in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada, it means an American. It
We reach the final week of the A to Z Challenge, and today I’m delighted to welcome Vidya Sury, one of my co-minions on #TeamDamyanti. As well as her minioning, Vidya has been running the challenge on two blogs –
Saturdays mean book reviews here, so knowing that W is for Whiskey in the NATO alphabet I set out to find a suitable book for the A to Z Challenge. I was tempted to search out Whiskey Galore, which is
I decided to take a break from flash fiction this week and give you an extract from the new book instead. Since the cover illustration clearly shows a storm brewing, I decided to jump in with a 600 word extract
Uniform – the designator for U in the NATO International Alphabet. Even if you didn’t have an official school uniform, you probably wore clothes that were uniform in their character. They blended in with your schoolmates’. Even though we like
S for Sierra: Mountain ridges tipped with snow. It’s a Spanish word. Sierra is specifically a mountain range, not just a mountain. It is used extensively in Spanish speaking areas, or when the Spanish settlers named the landforms. This picture
I was trying to keep away from the obvious explanation of the letter R in the NATO alphabet, so Google and Wikipedia searches give us: A village in Macomb County, Michigan, USA; also towns in Colorado, Florida and Tennessee Romeo
Our writing prompt guru Chuck Wendig decided to do an opening line challenge this week. In theory we write the opening line for today and next week we pick one and write the story. So I wrote: Nobody in her
Oscar is the phonetic word for O in the NATO Alphabet. I suppose what most people think of first is the Oscars – the awards from the Academy of Motion Pictures. I bought a replica of the statuette on my
For many people, November (the phonetic word for N) is the National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo. When I first started writing and blogging, I saw these references to NaNoWriMo and wondered what on earth it meant. Three years on I’ve
M is a challenge. Mike is hard in a haiku And M is for Mike! Well, I’m really stretching it here! Mike is not an easy word for a discussion anyway – do you go for the abbreviation for a