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.
Reflections on the #AtoZChallenge2019
#IWSG May 2019 | Finishing the Series & Camp NaNoWriMo
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
Z is for Zephyrs – 2013 #atozchallenge
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
eXactly | Fiction in Fifty Words #Fi50 #AtoZchallenge2019
‘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
V for Victor in the 2014 and 2017 #AtoZchallenge
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,
U is Updating my biography #atozchallenge
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 | worldbuilding + author interview #AtoZChallenge
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
Review | Heiða, by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir #atozchallenge
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,
Manufacturing in the Princelings World #AtoZChallenge
Manufacturing was an aspect of the Princelings world I hadn’t really thought through when I first wrote the books. During 2012 I did the A to Z of the Princelings World for my first #AtoZChallenge. This year my theme is
Lyrid Meteor shower | next week #AtoZchallenge
Lyrids are a meteor shower that seems to come from the area of the sky with the constellation of Lyra behind them. They’re photobombing Lyra, if you like! This post comes from April 2015’s A to Z Challenge. My theme
K is for Kevin and Percy #atozchallenge
Kevin and Percy did the A to Z Challenge in 2017, as had Victor and Dylan before them. They used to run the George’s Guinea Pig World website, now it’s under Roscoe and Bertie’s control. They are doing the AtoZ
Jewel Box | #WEP-IWSG flash fiction #AtoZchallenge
Jewel Box is the prompt for this month’s WEP-IWSG flash fiction challenge. It’s not due until April 17th, but I’m doing it nearly a week early to go with J for Jewel in the A to Z Challenge. Apart from
Humphrey Goes East – 2013 #atozchallenge
Humphrey Goes East is a 1000 word flash fiction I included in the A to Z Challenge 2013. To celebrate the A2Z team’s tenth anniversary, I’m blogging from my previous seven April Challenges. This is the first from 2013, when
G is for G’Nauss – an #AtoZchallenge Flashback
G’Nauss is a planet in my Viridian System series world. In 2016 I took world-building as my theme for the A2Z. This year I’m celebrating the tenth anniversary of the A to Z Challenge by featuring posts from my previous
Flying – a post from 2012’s #AtoZChallenge
Flying seemed like a good post for the letter F. It’s a theme that goes through a lot of my work, since I’ve been interested in it since I was very small, largely because my father worked for Imperial Airways
Eclipse 2015 #FlashbackFriday #AtoZChallenge
Eclipse is a post from 2015’s A to Z Challenge. It led my theme choice for that year’s A to Z Challenge, which became ‘natural phenomena’. That was relevant to my normal blogging: the environment and science bit is sometimes
C is for Castles – an AtoZChallenge Flashback special #IWSG
Castles seem to be an obsession with me. The whole of the Princelings series revolves around inter-castle rivalry. And here’s a post to celebrate C in the A to Z Anniversary challenge. I’m doing flashbacks to the posts I’ve done
B is for Bravo – Victor, that is #atozchallenge
Bravo, Victor. In fact the title of my sixth book is Bravo Victor without any punctuation. My theme for this year’s anniversary A to Z Challenge is Flashbacks. I’m picking posts from my previous seven A to Zs. In 2014
April A to Z Challenge starts with An Astronaut’s Guide
April A to Z Challenge starts today—and it’s ten years old! Happy anniversary to everyone involved and especially Lee, who started it all. I’m celebrating by revisiting posts from the last seven years. Yes, I’ve done seven April A to
Whenever | Fiction in fifty words #Fi50 + Camp Nano 2019
Whenever is this month’s prompt for Fiction in Fifty words. You can join in. Just go to Rebecca Douglass’s page for the prompts of the month (the whole year is displayed for you, just in case you want to get
Blogging from A to Z Challenge sign up today #flashbackfriday
Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge opens today! It’s the tenth year, and I’ve done seven of them. You can sign in here. What is blogging from A to Z? A post every day of the month except
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with J Lenni Dorner
J Lenni Dorner is my last guest for the AtoZ Challenge Book Review Blog Tour, which is part of the AtoZ’s tenth birthday celebrations. His book is yet to be published, and the posts will be part of his April
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with Rebekah Loper
Rebekah Loper wrote a book as a result of her A-Z Challenge one year. Her theme – worldbuilding. Since I did the same some years later, I was delighted to see what she’d made of the subject. Answer – a
An #AtoZChallenge Book Review – with Tony Laplume
Tony Laplume blogs from A to Z in April. One year he wrote a set of 26 character sketches which became a novella. And so it came to pass that it arrived in my hands to review as part of
First Annual #AtoZ Review and Book Tour Sign-ups
The A to Z Challenge peeps are launching a Reviews and Book Tour Blog hop to take place in February, with sign-ups opening today until the 18th January. I’ve now updated this post, so see details below or hop over