A week ago I contacted Fantastic Books Publishing to suggest an idea. Suppose the collection of pun-laden performance pieces they published for me in 2016, Cruel and Unusual PunNishments, were to be promoted again through their social media etc. outlets, with…

For the first time in almost 100 years, the UK has had a December general election. The Conservative Party has won its biggest majority for over 30 years, despite being led by a prime minister who is widely regarded as…

Several people have asked me about the interview I had with Talk Radio Europe about The Engklimastat. You can listen to it by going to my author page on Fantastic Books Publishing, https://www.fantasticbooksstore.com/authors/mark-p-henderson, and then clicking the link indicated by “here on Talk…

Our “Folktales of South West Peak” project isn’t finished, but we now have about forty minutes’ worth of film on my colleague Tim’s website, Peak in the Past. It’s free to download at http://www.peakinthepast.co.uk/folktales.html The grant we received for this work…

All right, it often isn’t. Like any professional editor, I edit manuscripts to earn money. Some manuscripts are okay to read and easy to edit, others (especially by inexperienced authors) take a great deal of work, and sometimes an editing…

For several weeks I’ve been leaving notes to myself: Write more blog posts. I’ve ignored them because I’ve been very busy with editing (more about that in another blog – watch this space), teaching, working on the folktale film project (yet another…

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO SOCIETY IF CRIME BECAME IMPOSSIBLE… INCONCEIVABLE? AND WHAT DIABOLICAL MACHINATIONS COULD MAKE THIS HAPPEN? IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT, READ THE ENGKLIMASTAT (Engklimastat (noun): that which prevents or stops law-breaking. Gk egklima, law-breaking, + stat)…

Two separate shifts in scientific opinion about the domestic dog have happened during the past few years. It’s interesting to consider them together. One shift came from a detailed molecular genetic study of canines, which revealed such a close similarity…

During the past few days, three more mass shootings have occurred in the USA. In at least two of those cases, the motivation of the gunman seems to have been antagonism to immigrants and non-White people. Some commentators have attributed…

Boris Johnson has achieved his long-term (lifelong?) ambition by becoming the new U.K. prime minister. His primary aim is to ensure that Brexit happens by 31st October, deal or no deal. He has therefore appointed a right-wing, pro-Brexit cabinet comprising…