Author of the Princelings of the East fantasy and Viridian System scifi series
Reflections… As far as I was concerned, the A to Z Listless Challenge lived up to expectations. That is, after all, what the A to Z Hosts want to hear. The online survey gave options that I answered truthfully. They
Updating my biography was a topic I promised when it came to J for Jemima. But Tuesdays used to be when I did haikus and I promised some during the A to Z Theme Reveal. I like doing haiku, although
To Be Read was not a concept I knew about before I started blogging. Or maybe it was before I started writing seriously – if you can call what I do ‘serious writing’. I bought books, I put them on
See you in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng, is a middle grade listed book that I had from Net-Galley to review prior to its publication in March. So this review has been on Goodreads and on the Amazon site for a few weeks. I
Red Sky at Night was the saying I took for this week’s flash fiction prompt. It needed to begin with R for the A to Z Challenge. I stole the idea for the quest from Ben Zackheim’s The Camelot Kids Book 1,
Persistence. I had to fit letter P for the A to Z Challenge into this month’s Fiction in 50 Words from the Bookshelf Gargoyle. His theme? When One Door Shuts I thought persistence was a pretty good word to go with
A news round-up is a generic term for Monday posts on my blog. This is my spot for discussions, events, things I’ve discovered or done, announcements and sometimes “I don’t know what to say today so I’m making it up
Mercenary Instinct is my M for the A to Z on Saturday, my book review day. I’m away at my niece’s wedding today, so I’d be grateful for any ‘shares’ on social media! I picked Mercenary Instinct for M since
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,
#AtoZChallenge: week one is done, so I thought I’d check up on How you’re doing for my post for the letter H today. Do leave a comment below to tell me how it’s going for you. How am I doing…
Gangsta Granny was a book I picked up last year, although I’d been planning to read it for ages. I’d heard good things about it, and really feel I should read more UK authors works, especially for older children. The
Friday is Flash Fiction day on my blog. I usually get prompts from a great guy called Chuck Wendig, who has his own style, with a lot of rude words, but he’s inspirational despite that. For today he offered us
The Book Bloggers’ Hop is run by the Coffee Addicted Writer, with a question for bloggers each week. I thought those Bs would be a good start to the blogging week on the A to Z Challenge, and especially since
Yes, it’s Theme Reveal time for this year’s A to Z Challenge. It’s not essential to have a theme if you’ve decided to join in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. It’s just – well, many of us
That’s a question I’ve been asking for the last three weeks. Finally last Monday, we had a partial answer…. and we’ll find out today. If you didn’t receive the notification by email, or see the blog post, here’s an extract:
I bet I’m not the only one who’s overtired. I was struggling to get a flash fiction together for last Friday, and really pushing against the mud. It seems to have been like this with writing for a couple of
Hi, and welcome to my first stop on the A to Z Road trip this year. I’m aiming to post every second Wednesday of the month, or sometime near to the 15th of the month, whatever makes it easiest for
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
Friday is flash fiction day, and I’ve restricted myself to just over 800 words to bring you a piece of Viridian System series backstory, which readers of The Perihelix have been asking for. Well, they wanted to know more about
In my quest to talk about world-building from A to Z I was expecting trouble when it came to X. Fortunately, before I was reduced to building my own planet beginning with X for the Viridian System series, I found
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
Ulric is a planet within the Imperium, although it is not a planet, but a large moon, orbiting the planet Daedalus, which orbits the star Barnard at 1AU, the same distance as the Earth from the Sun. Barnard, as it
T is for Turgonia, the main city in Lindsay Buroker’s fabulous Emperor’s Edge series. Since it’s Saturday, it’s book review day, but since it’s the A to Z, I have to focus on world-building. My review is of Conspiracy, book