Now

Updated October 2026

What I am actually doing at the moment, rather than a summary of everything I have ever done. Rewritten every month or so, and out of date the rest of the time.

01 · Writing

Two unpublished manuscripts

There are two manuscripts and neither is published. Deciding what they are for, and how they reach anyone, has not started.

The immediate task is shorter pieces. The books argue at length; the essays argue at the length of an afternoon, and the first two are up.

The thing you were afraid of
Unpublished. Thirty chapters in six parts, plus a handbook and an epilogue. Read about it.
Nobody has to shrink
Unpublished. Eighteen chapters, six standalone quantum philosophy sections, and a reflection workbook. Read about it.
02 · Building

Splitting one site into two

This domain used to be a marketing consultancy site. It is being turned into a writing site, and everything commercial now lives on a separate domain, where it can be as commercial as it likes without sitting next to an argument about attachment.

That means deleting rather than redirecting, so nothing exists in two places. Some of it is done and some of it is visibly half done, which is what you would expect of a page called Now.

03 · Working

The profession, briefly

Head of Growth Marketing at BetterBugs and QAble Testlab, two software companies, since April 2025. The work is organic discoverability: what a company should be findable for, and what it should build in order to be.

There is one page on the profession and it sells nothing.

04 · Undecided

Things I have not worked out

Kept here in public because a Now page listing only progress is a press release.

Query agents, or publish them myself
Two manuscripts and two entirely different sets of consequences. Not yet decided.
How much of the books to put online
The book pages already publish chapter structures and quoted lines. Generous if I self-publish, premature if I query.
Where the two books differ
One contains a handbook and the other is one. I can feel the distinction and have not yet written it down in a sentence that satisfies me.
How often this page should change
Monthly is honest and quarterly is realistic. A stale Now page is worse than no Now page.

Elsewhere on this site

This page is a snapshot. The argument it keeps referring to is in the books, and the reasoning behind the whole thing is on the about page.