I’ve a busy week ahead. I was hoping to start doing Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction photoprompts again, but haven’t got there yet. Instead I’ve got two book fairs and three days of ‘open studios’ ahead of me. Craft Fairs Saturday
Busy week ahead
Chapel | #writephoto Flash Fiction
A chapel, built of stone, in an area of broken down ruins, perhaps. That’s the photoprompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for #writephoto this week. I enjoyed developing this idea. It’s amazing what you can see in a photograph. Just
Book Review | When We Return by Eliana Tobias
When We Return featured on this blog when it was on a Great Escapes tour earlier this summer. I couldn’t read it in time for a review then, but I have now. When We Return by Eliana Tobias Who should
Book Review | Encrypted series by Lindsay Buroker
Encrypted, Enigma, and Decrypted are the three books in Lindsay Buroker’s Forgotten Ages series. These are set in the same world as the Emperor’s Edge, but many years earlier. I think I got one of these in a Storybundle, and
The Problem of Paperbacks | #IWSG
Paperbacks; aren’t they nice to have? Recent events have made me think more about paperback (softcover) editions, and I thought I’d ask you for your thoughts. Next month I’ll review my first year of selling my paperbacks at Craft Fairs.
Solitude | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Solitude. I had no idea what I was going to write for this prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. After I set up the post I finished reading one book and started on Femina, which I’m reviewing at the end
Book Review | Small Miracles by Anne Booth
Small Miracles caught my eye when it came through on the Netgalley email update. I generally avoid anything with a hint of religion in it, but this sounded great fun. And so it is! It’s out this week – go
Book Review | Looking for Emily by Fiona Longmuir
Looking for Emily came up as an offering on Netgalley. The blurb intrigued me, and I succeeded in getting an advance copy. Not enough in advance for me to read it before publication, but I prioritised it all the same.
Ribbit! | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Ribbit! was a fantastic prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for this week’s #writephoto. Having clarified that it was a frog and a toad pictured in the pond, I wandered off, thinking. And eventually knew how to start, and how
Book Review | Untethered
Untethered is a recent anthology from Rhonda Parrish. She is prolific with these, and every author should check out her website to see if their writing might have suited past calls, and what the current call for submission is (Women
Seahorse | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Seahorse – what a great picture for our #writephoto prompt from K L Caley today. I’m still having trouble getting my writing brain into gear, but just putting one word after the other seems to work. I decided to stop
Book Review | The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle
The Museum of Ordinary People: a book that didn’t fit any category I usually read, but sounded as if I’d really enjoy it. Right on both counts, as it turns out. Thank you to NetGalley and to the publishers for
Which world? #IWSG July 2022
Which world would I like to live in? That’s the IWSG question today. I’m glad I can answer it because I can’t think of anything to write about just now. My brain is fried, and my inbox is overwhelming me.
Book Review | Flavia Albia Double Act (books 5 and 6)
The Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis is one of my favourites. You’ve already had all the Falco series – well, from about halfway through which was when I started blogging. Flavia Albia is his daughter – now grown up,
Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale runs 1st through 31st July
It’s Summer/Winter Sale time again! Smashwords does its site-wide promotion through July, summer in the northern hemisphere, winter in the south. And whether you’re thinking of hiding from the barbecue, lying on a sunbed, or curling up by a nice