Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Ten years old. It’s the birthday of my first published book, Princelings of the East came out on kindle ten years ago. Soon after that I discovered I could publish to all the other e-readers via Smashwords. The Princelings of
Arch is the prompt for #writephoto this week. It’s a lovely photo by KL Caley, and gave me several ideas, but only one that persisted. I’m having trouble fitting everything in at present. Editing Zanzibar’s Rings is competing now with
Character wrangling is a term I put together when writing my guest post for Ronel Janse van Vuuren today. I was writing of the discovery I made when I started writing the Princelings series, that characters do what they want,
Ulva is a small island off the north-west coast of the Isle of Mull, which itself is off the north-west coast of Scotland. And I suppose Scotland is part of the island group of the northwest coast of Europe…. I’m
The Kings Council provides the forum for all the heads of castles in the Princelings Realms to rule harmoniously. Today’s 250 word flash fiction demonstrates how. It’s for the Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition. You can enter too! The Kings
I was hoping to do the Deja Vu Blogfest today. This has been an annual flashback event, and I liked it so much I went for the monthly one when that was invented. The brainchild of D L Hammons, it
Willoughby finishes his story, and jumps off the platform called the fiddlesticks to rapturous applause. Quite how he got so popular in such a short time nobody really knows, except he brought some new angles on old stories, and new
Today I’m being interviewed by Kai Strand on her blog Strands of Thought. Kai is a children’s author, and blogs fiction for children and teens. That sounds just the right place for me. She’s asked me some interesting questions, like
Week three in my lead up to Read Tuesday (9th December) – and an excerpt from the third of my books. There is a special offer at the end, with more available for Read Tuesday itself. I’m doing them in
This is the second of my posts in the lead up to Read Tuesday (9th December) – an excerpt from each of my books. There will be special offers available for Read Tuesday itself – see details at the end
Bravo Victor is the sixth in The Princelings of the East series, and stars Victor, keeper of the Inn of the Seventh Happiness, a much-loved character in four of the previous books. On Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th July, from
Christmas cards posted, Meals planned, presents wrapped, tree up. Soon friends will arrive!
On the website now: A serial starring Fred, and a giveaway! A little plug for the Princelings official website. Fred’s Yuletide Escape is a ten part serial, with four parts published but you can start here. The Giveaway that is
This week’s challenge from Chuck Wendig was to write a story in your own ‘punk’ genre. This was in honour of the release of his new book Under the Empyrean Sky, which he calls ‘cornpunk’. I’m slightly familiar with cyberpunk,
Here we are in the middle of Yuletide again. It’s such a busy time, but very enjoyable, and although he would never admit it, it’s a time Fred finds very stressful these days. There are a lot of duties on