Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
‘Kill the Black One First’ was a phrase shouted by rioters at Brixton as the police officers formed a barrier. This memoir from Michael Fuller is a powerful and thought-provoking book. I’m very grateful to the publishers and Net-galley for the
Sweet Home Alabama is the prompt for this month’s Fiction in Fifty words. You can join in by making your own fifty word story in response to the prompt. Link yours to (or just post it in) the comments on
Leaves of Fall was published yesterday! It’s the latest from Patricia Lynne, who blogs beautiful words and writes a darn good plot. Read more about it: Leaves of Fall by Patricia Lynne genres: Teen & YA / post-apocalyptic Armory was
Save Week is the next stage of WRiTE CLUB 2019. For the last three weeks we’ve been choosing between pairs of finalists. Now, before we get into the next round of battles, there’s Save Week, where we vote to save
Sassinak was listed for one of the Space Opera Group’s books of the month for April, and unusually I got it read within the timescale. It’s another for my SpaceTime Reading Challenge – which seems to be going rather well
I took my first steps in using the WordPress new Gutenberg system last week. For non-wordpress users, this is an upgrade which changed the way we write our posts. You no longer have have one frame to write your blog
The Porpoise was published Thursday 9th May. The publisher Vintage, allowed me an ARC via Net-Galley. The only work I’ve read by Mark Haddon was the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, so I wondered how this (adult)
George’s Guinea Pig World. You may never have heard of it. My guinea pig George, brother of Fred, my first two pets, became a star of the Rodents With Attitude Forum, taking up the role of Forum Mechanic. I’m not
Reflections … again. It’s always good to reflect on the A to Z Challenge, but I doubt whether I have anything to say that I didn’t say last year, except for some new observations about the state of blogging.
The Stone Circle came out in February in the UK, and for once I hadn’t pre-ordered it. So when I was on NetGalley’s original site by accident and saw it on offer for readers, I jumped at the chance. This
Curved Space to Corsair, book 2 of the Viridian System series, is on sale this weekend only! It’s part of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Promotion, with many great ebooks from all aspects of science fiction and fantasy – and
Finishing the series: I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but given it’s the 1st May, and it’s Insecure Writers Support Group, and I’ve just got back from Camp NaNoWriMo, I thought I’d take it as my subject. I didn’t
Zephyrs and other Winds brings you a charming insight into daily life at Castle Marsh. That’s the life of my Princelings of the East. This year I’ve been giving you flashbacks from my previous seven A to Z Challenges, to
Yard or Yule? I was doing the A to Z of the Princelings world in 2012. I couldn’t decide which to feature, so I did both. This tenth anniversary year I’m doing flashbacks to my first seven AtoZs. At this
‘eXactly’ replaces the post I’d already done for this year’s X of the AtoZ Challenge. In fact, I’d replaced it last year, too. Maybe it will finally surface in 2020. Since that was also an eX cheat (as was last
Water. The stuff of life. It’s my pick from the posts of the last seven A to Zs, as my theme for this anniversary year is flashbacks. It is also the proper place for Flashback Friday posts – the meme
Victor. I meant to use the post I did for the NATO Alphabet in 2014, but it was an excerpt about the storm in his book, Bravo Victor, where he hides under his bed. I’m sure I’ve used that recently,
Updating my biography – probably the first time I’d done it since I started blogging in 2011. My theme for 2019, in keeping with the A to Z’s tenth anniversary, is flashbacks. I’m posting from the seven previous A to
Turgonia was the place I chose to feature for the letter T of my world-building themed A to Z in 2016. This year I’m doing flashbacks from the seven challenges I’ve undertaken. The A to Z Challenge is celebrating its
Security service is a post from the April 2012 A to Z Challenge. My theme that year was the A to Z of the Princelings books; this year in celebration of the Challenge’s tenth anniversary, I’m doing flashbacks. I’ve done
Heiða is my book for R for Review, which is my regular Saturday topic. I’m breaking out of my A to Z Challenge Flashbacks to bring you a review of a fascinating book published on Thursday (18th April). Thank you,
‘Quadrants’ was part of my worldbuilding series on the AtoZ Challenge for 2016. I’m doing flashbacks from my seven challenges in honour of the Tenth Anniversary. I have a science fiction series that goes by the name of the Viridian
Pickpocket – a 500 word piece written in 2012. I included it in my A to Z Challenge in 2013 when my theme was ‘stories’. This year I’m doing flashbacks from my previous seven A2Zs to honour the tenth anniversary
Orogeny, or mountain building, featured as my A to Z for O in 2015. This year my theme is flashbacks. I’m picking out posts from the seven A to Zs I’ve done before. Wednesday 17th is supposed to be the
November is the word for N in the NATO alphabet, which is the theme I chose for the A to Z Challenge in 2014. This year I’m doing flashbacks to my seven A2Zs, in honour of the Challenge’s tenth anniversary.