Amazon Top Ten Ranking
Delighted to see Winning at Épée breaking an Amazon Top Ten. Broken down by genre and category Amazon Top Ten – fencing books is our specific chart.
Three New Essential Short Guides Available Now
Three new Essential Short Guides are available now at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books as well as the Proactivity Press online shop.
Essential Short Guides Available Online Now
You can find our Essential Short Guides available online now at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books as well as our own online shop.
New listing at Waterstones
I have books listed online at Waterstones online store, thanks to the UK’s ISBN registry via A.C. Nielsen. Waterstones has the paperbacks listed at the full retail price.
Escape the Plot Forest Virtual Summit
I just spent five days attending the Escape the Plot Forest Virtual Summit, a writers’ conference organised by Daniel David Wallace, ex-pat writer, editor and teacher of creative writing based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Promoted as a complete guide to the plotting process, “first step to first reader” approach to telling stories, by common agreement of…
Celebrating the Radiophonic Workshop
Under the BBC’s Arts & Ideas thread on BBC Sounds: The Radiophonic Workshop Matthew Sweet narrates a 40-minute documentary on the pioneers of British radio and TV electronic scores.
Winning at Épée: Techniques for the Shorter Fencer
Winning at Épée: Techniques for the Shorter Fencer is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. Winning at Epee: Techniques for the shorter fencer Robin Catling In the sport of Modern Olympic Fencing, where the taller fencer notionally has the advantage of reach, the shorter fencer needs every tactical help they can get…
Lose yourself in timeless fiction from literary greats
A collection of one hundred stories in unabridged audio from BBC Sounds. A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats from Austen to Elliot, Dickens to Maupassant, Conan Doyle to Wharton.
The Newcomer’s Guide to Competition Fencing available now
The Newcomer’s Guide to Competition Fencing by Robin Catling is available on Amazon now in e-book and paperback editions.
Re-boot for 2020
In the current state of lock down, an online spring-clean seemed in order and this blog is once again the creative centre for anything that isn’t movie, tech or fencing-related. New sites are up, old projects and sites have been closed down and Everything Express has been put to bed, Proactivity Press has opened for…
