View from the Potting Shed

A few months back I got an email from the management team for the Open European Mahjong Championship looking for a team of British players to participate in this year’s championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The competition runs from Thursday 21 - Sunday 24 June 2007, with an optional pre-tournament sightseeing tour from Monday 18 - Thursday […]

This week I received a package from Hodder Education in the post. It contained my complimentary copies of Teach Yourself Mahjong (Third Edition) by David Pritchard. And me. (ISBN-13: 978-0-340-92726-7, ISBN-10: 0-340-92726-7.)
While I’ve probably blogged this before it’s probably worth repeating that the reason I came to update the third edition was that the […]

While you were asleep (probably, if you live in the UK) I was up early (05:45) and working on the final few edits and corrections to the first draft of the Teach Yourself Mahjong book which landed on my doorstep about a fortnight ago. So far I’ve only spotted about 15 corrections, which is […]

At last, I’m done — and I’m fairly done in too! — the book manuscript is finished and awaiting posting.
For those of you who may not know, since May I’ve been working on writing an update to the Hodder Education book Teach Yourself Mahjong. The original author, Mr David Pritchard, sadly died at the end […]

God is good. I know that I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably get a load of comments claiming that God is good anyway regardless of the lovely things he does for Jane and I, and I quite agree … BUT, I’ll say it again: God is good. And this is why:
Way back in 2004 […]

Here’s an exclusive preview of what I’ve done on the mahjong book so far:

I’m going to call the book A Writer’s Block Tribute to Mahjong.
Only kidding, but I do wish that I had more energy. As much as I’m enjoying the discipline and new rhythm to life, this ‘proper job’ 9-5 routine is rather […]

France once again scrum down on the 22, deciding whom to evict from the team. Or something.
One of the worst things about trying to write a book during the World Cup is that the World Cup is on. I know it’s a bit of a circular argument, but it will make much more […]