I recently joined Instagram in an attempt to up my social media game. Given that I’m incredibly anti-social and I have little in the way of “game” you can imagine how well it’s been going.
I don’t have any issues of people making a living from their face or body. But while I’ve jumped onto Instagram you won’t find me posting pictures of myself or my life on there as a matter of course and here are five reasons why.

My mother was exceedingly modest and very self-deprecating, someone who often described herself as “stern” yet had a wonderful wit and deep compassion.
She was the strongest person I’ve ever known and I miss her terribly.
A tribute to Verna May Sheehan – 19 June 1929-1 November 2020.

Writing novels is like running a marathon, and every step provides the temptation to simply stop.
Writing a series of novels, and being a relatively unknown who doesn’t make a living from his writing, turns that temptation into a daily struggle with feelings of failure.
So how do I keep going? Why do I keep going? And why doesn’t being actually called a failure, something that recently happened, hurt me?

Dear Cancellation Committee,
Thank you for your efforts in cancelling that awful Dr Seuss. Yes, I know it was the copyright holders who simply decided to stop publishing only six books nobody had ever heard of before, and that until relatively recently the publishers were completely happy for such racism to see print, but your work is still much appreciated by a woke, politically correct, hater-snowflake like myself.
Further to this, I would like to submit the following cartoon characters for immediately cancellation.

Just how do I come up with the titles for The Mythic Series? What, if any, are my naming conventions? How many future novels already have titles attached? And, if forced to choose, which title would I pick as my favourite?

Why did I publish my first novel as “Dominic Sheehan” and The Mythic Series as “DC Sheehan”?
Who is this “Dom Shaheen” that is mentioned in the copyright notice on my website?
Come learn the stories behind my names. This tale has everything: 19th century racism, full stops, falcons, the overthrow of the monarchy in Egypt, anagrams, and paperwork!

Those lifeless eyes with their creepy sideways leer, those smugly pursed lips, those rubbery limbs that are just aching to wrap around your neck and tighten until your body goes still. Elf is a demonic nightmare unleashed upon our world and here are five reasons that’s true.

Helen Reddy’s 1970s hit is economical story-telling at its finest, telling a nuanced, chilling tale in just over 250 words. A troubled girl in jeopardy. A villain who, deliciously, becomes the victim. Horror stories don’t get much better than this.

What do you do when your dream – of writing TV comedy – turns into a nightmare? How do you build a career with the “world’s worst sitcom” on your CV? I wrestled with feelings of failure for years until Kylie Minogue showed me that reinvention takes time but it’s never too late to change the rules.

Roald Dahl may have not have been a fan of the 1971 adaptation of his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I think it’s that rare film that improves on the source material. It’s an incredibly dark fairy tale that grows more troublesome the more you bite into it.
Here are five reasons I so adore this delightfully gothic film.

It all started with a Ha. Which lead to a Hā, a te reo/Māori word meaning “breath”. Which became a Hå the magical energy of Aedea. Which inspired an entire linguistic system of emotive glyphs.

The story about a story concludes! After years of not being able to finish novels, and years purposefully not writing them, I ended up creating a series of them. How did that happen and what did that journey teach me? (Part II of II)

‘Let me tell you a story about a story.’ After my first book Finding Home was published I spent years in a maze of my own making, trying and failing to complete another novel. Why did that happen and what did I do to about it? (Part I of II)