Well I am proud to announce that we are now 100% carbon neutral after investing in carbon offsets through the UN's Go Carbon Neutral Now! program where by after calculating your carbon footprint per year you are given a range of projects in the developing world to invest in and offset your carbon footprint. I had a carbon footprint of 9.6 tonnes per year and purchased 50 tonnes of carbon offsets thus ensuring my neutrality for the next 5 years. I can always top this up as my usage changes.
If you would like to investigate this for yourselves I've added the link: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/climate-neutral-now

These 10 novels are guaranteed to satisfy the history lover in your life.

Teens can be fussy readers and YA fiction doesn't click with all of them. So what do you give to your teen who doesn't like YA?

Black Cockie has a list of books that might just tempt these readers away from their screens over the Christmas period.

How long have you been writing?

While I’ve always had an interest in writing, so far I’ve left behind quite a few half-finished, quarter-baked stories over the years. It was at the age of 20 that I took my first (foolish) plunge into writing an epic dystopian sci-fi trilogy, and while I put tons of work into it and had entire binders overflowing with technology notes, trees of command, full-colour sigil designs for the assorted bad guy Legions and reams of detailed history, I admit that I went too big too soon with the project and I was totally out of my depth. While I wouldn’t show a single page of that first attempt to anybody nowadays, I prefer to see that first unpublished trilogy as being a part of my “training” for becoming a writer. It might not have gone anywhere, but the experience taught me a lot.

Scum of the Universe the outrageously funny debut novel by Grant J Everett is out now. 

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