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…