Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Week 2 of the A to Z Challenge and I’m continuing the illustration theme, but today the main feature is an Interview with Ronel Janse van Vuuren, who not only is promoting her Irascible Immortals books this month, but also
The Physicists’ Daughter is by Mary Anna Evans, who is touring at present with Lori’s Great Escapes tours. Ad don’t miss the Giveaway that’s part of the tour! And the reason why you think you’ve seen this post before? I
A Mistake Incomplete is tagged #noir-inspired and #suspense, so it sounded just up my street! Not that I’m reviewing it today. No, today Lorenzo Petruzziello is visiting in person. Thank Dorothy Thompson of Pump Up Your Book Virtual Blog Tours
The Shadow of Atlantis is the first in the fabulous children’s historical time travel adventure series The Shadows of the Past. Wendy Leighton-Porter is on virtual tour with Pump Up Your Book, and I’m very pleased to be hosting her
We’re having a birthday party! Not that it’s my birthday, although it is an anniversary of someone I love. But when we discussed what sort of guest post we could do for Princelings Revolution, Patricia Josephine replied ‘let’s have a
K is for Kevin – and Percy – who I mentioned earlier in the week. If you haven’t met them yet, get over to George’s Guinea Pig World and see what their favourite thing today is. Although, as it starts with K,
Wow! It’s over for another year – but then again, it’s not really over, since there are all those new friends I made when visiting – and all those I missed out. Although I feel I did better than some
Welcome to the last (or is it last but one?) post of the 2016 A to Z Challenge. What a journey! My world-building theme started at Alpha Kenworthy and ends at Zndaria, by way of Lothlorien and Turgonia, to name
Windemere: A place of magic, of dragons, of evil beasts that live under the earth and rise up to snare the unwary, of desolate wastelands, and green fields and forests. A good place for my W post in my world-building
Well, today V hits Viridium, the spur for my world-building theme for this year’s A to Z. I have a detailed description here which is an edited version of that on the Viridian system website. Then I’ve answered my own question
N is for Nevermore, the planet central to Judith Tarr’s splendid book Forgotten Suns. Saturday is book review day, even during the April A to Z, but I’ll be slanting it towards my theme of world-building, and in addition, I
My world-building letter K is for K’Barth, which is only part of M T McGuire’s wondrous parallel world, it’s true, but the heroes are K’Barthan and I’m going to ignore the Grongols, Blurpons and myriad other races which are part
Letter D in my world-building-themed Challenge this year stands for Dolvia, a world developed by Stella Atrium. Stella is here today to give me her thoughts on world-building. The first book in the Dolvia saga is Sufferstone, which I confess I
Caramel Cardamom (or possibly Caramel Cinnamon) is an elf girl who lives on the planet Cardamom. Her grandfather is the king, and her mom is a healer. They heal through thought, and that’s what Caramel wants to do when she
Before I get started on the tour, please could I ask you to go over to Author Shout where The Perihelix is up against a load of other great covers in COVER WARS all week. Please vote EVERY DAY all