Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Way back when this blog was new, it was a different beast. I occasionally look back at the beginnings when we come up with an anniversary of some sort. That’s if WordPress reminds me in time. Today’s Book Blogger Hop
How many books do you not finish each year? I seem to go through phases; I don’t know whether it’s what I’m reading or how I feel about the book and other things I have to do. Sometimes the book
At the beginning of April, I got a surprise email from Goodreads. No, it wasn’t a comment, or an update, or a new giveaway notice, not even a newsletter. It was an email from Otis and Elizabeth Chandler, the founders of
I wanted to finish a book in order to review it inside the author’s launch timescale, but I got to the first page on the train and felt the need to rest… well, I had already finished two on that journey,
Have you noticed it’s the end of September already? In theory, I should now be sitting with a completed and published book of my dad’s memoirs and have set up the new paperbacks for the Princelings series. Those were the
Yep, I’m all organised. Much! I’ve got all of my blog posts written now, except for.. a few Three of my writing course friends are publishing short stories with me, and two are scheduled My illustrator Dani is talking about
Yep, I’m all organised although there’re still some stories to be written and books to be read in order to review them. The question is, what are YOU doing about the A to Z Blog Challenge? I mean, you’re reading
Have I made any progress since the last update at 7 weeks? Not much! I’ve got more stories written, including a completely new one starring Professor Saku, telling how he came to invent the grav-sleds that are used by Hugo
That must be long enough, surely? Well, I’ve got a blog title set against each of the letters except Y. I’ve got the stories drafted for every letter up to K except for the book reviews. I’m truly organised. Except
Sometimes you read books with characters gaining special powers and after the journey to gain the powers the adventure is pretty tame or disjointed. Sometimes the story is awesome all the way through (Cassidy Jones, Matt Archer). With Jaguar Sun
I was 40% in when I gave up on this book. There are hints that Elliot is destined to become the saviour in some sort of legend that involves a parallel universe accessed through zips in the fabric of space,