Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
One Summer in Tuscany is excellent holiday reading with a light touch of romance. It’s by Domenica de Rosa, who I’ve met, and is one of my favourite authors. I reviewed Villa Serena a few years back and enjoyed that
Coraline was a gift from someone I worked with under rather tricky circumstances. She rated it… she was right. I’ve taken a leaf from Rebecca’s website to join in Marvellous Middle Grade Mondays, run by Greg Pattridge at Always in
The Life Impossible jumped out at me as I idly looked through netgalley, and I thank the publisher for the chance to read it. It’s the third Matt Haig book I’ve read, and he’s written loads more! It’ll take me
Steam was the writephoto prompt for last October. One of my visitors at the Lymington Craft Fair last weekend gave me the germ of an idea for this one, but most of the thanks go to K L Caley at
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable is due out on August 15th. Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the advance copy. I was fascinated by the description, and I wasn’t disappointed The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable Venice. 1704. In
Do you have, or do you listen to, audiobooks? I have an audiobook problem, and I’d like your ideas. Basically, my narrator needs to change. Feather Stone, Kim Lajevardi,Diedre Knight, C. Lee McKenzie, and Sarah – The Faux Fountain Pen My audiobook problem It
Ghost Pirate Gambit is the start of a series by Jessie Kwak that I got from storybundle (along with several other very enjoyable scifi books). I think storybundle.com is an excellent source of fantasy, scifi and also other genres (including
Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns is the first in Rhonda Parrish’s Elemental Anthologies series, so naturally I read it last. You can tell how much I loved each one as I continued to buy the set. I’m now looking forward
Gorg is a troll, and not my invention. Even the quest he is on is not my invention. But as Chuck Wendig gave us the task of completing a story someone else had written the previous week, I chose Rebecca
Paris Adrift is probably the best time travel book I’ve read so far this decade. I don’t often say things like this, but it gripped me. I must check out the other time related books I got from Storybundle in
The Body In The Zero Gee Brothel is a novella (or ‘novelette’ according to the publisher) by Cameron Cooper, the first in a series of tales about a private law enforcer called Ptolemy Lane. I think I’d call it noir
Green was the keyword KL Caley attached to this colonnade of growing plants last year at new2writing.com. It more or less fitted an idea I had, responding to our dismal summer this year, and incorporating my theory for it. I’ve
I applied for an ARC of Environomics when I realised that it is already over 25 years since I studied environmental economics. It is also more than fifteen since I actually used any of it in my work. I’m very
Sometimes when I’m doing my book sales, my reaction sometimes has to be ‘aren’t people funny?’ It’s part of that shell you need to ward off the comments and reviews that hurt your ego. JS Pailly, Rebecca Douglass, Pat Garcia, Louise-Fundy Blue, and Natalie Aguirre
Bringing Down Goliath is a tale of a legal nature–mainly how the law can be used by the small people to bring our governments to order. To act legally, in fact. I can’t remember exactly when I started to crowdfund