Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Common Ground and other stories by Mackey Chandler, and Xeelee Vengeance, by Stephen Baxter. Both selected as Books of the Month sometime this year in the Goodreads Space Opera Group. Both good reads. One short and funny, one long and
The Penderwicks was the Great Middle Grade Reads group’s September Book of the Month. I’ve had it on my list since 2013, possibly not from being a BOTM runner-up, as I thought, but because MG King cited it in a
Ringworld was a chosen book for July for the Space Opera Goodreads group. I feel I should be reading and reviewing more science fiction, but I have to be careful it doesn’t mess with my own writing ideas. This copy
The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey, was picked as the book of the month for August by the Goodreads Space Opera Group. Despite all the others on my plate, I jumped at the chance to reread something I remembered
Time to go down the TBR Hole again. It’s only a couple of weeks ago that I did the first sweep at reducing my TBR using the strategy devised by Lia at Lost in a Story. Since then, I’ve read
I was asked a question on Goodreads the other day, and in answering it, I scrolled through the other answers I’d given. I updated what I was writing now, but looking at the answer to “How do you deal with
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
Shelfari is Amazon’s original reader platform – keep a list of your TBRs, share with others, comment, etc. I don’t know whether Amazon bought it from someone else in the relatively distant past, but they have announced that on 16th
If you have an agent and a publisher who handle all this stuff between them, and just tell you where and when to be places, or to approve some copy or to check your local paper, or whatever they do,
My first Insecure Writers Support Group post of 2016 wraps around my Goodreads Giveaway for the Traveler in Black and White. I was hunting for a place to post the giveaway on the blog, and I thought, well, it’s part
This is my annual round-up of books I’ve read in the year. Maybe it’s a little early, since there are still three weeks to go, which could mean three more books, but I am thinking of taking a small break other
The trials and tribulation of writing for an international audience… or being a writer in a non-US country, maybe? I don’t know. I’m sure it’s true that the world of internet reading is dominated by the US consumer, but it
As you know, my Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and I’ve just given away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. Now it’s the turn of the Princelings and the Pirates, but I’m only giving
My Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and to celebrate I’m giving away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. I did consider giving away one copy of each of the books, but I’m not
Of course, the big challenge for this month is to finish the revised draft of The Perihelix and get it to my editor. Camp ends on Friday, so how am I doing on that? Well, I’ve finished. I’ve won, in