Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
You Go First was picked as the Book of the Month for GMGR in February. When Stars are Scattered filled the March choice. As I’m now organising the Book of the Month, I thought I’d better read them. Both were
The Business of Short Stories by Shannon Lawrence (the Warrior Muse) is published tomorrow, so I’m doing a shout out today. I thought you might be interested in it, since you like the #writephoto event. This week’s offering ‘Through’ comes
Finishing the Hat is the first part of a review of his work by the genius composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who died last November aged 91. There is so much I wanted to discuss about it! I toyed with the idea
Cliff edge. How to write this one without being predictable? Memories of a real cliff edge came back to me. Let’s see how it goes. My thanks as always to KL Caley at New2Writing.com for continuing the #writephoto prompt each
The Cosmic Tourist came out in 2012, and I picked it up more or less straight away. It was probably Sir Patrick Moore’s last book, although he did have another Astronomy Year out posthumously. This is more of a coffee
Finding the Mother Tree was offered by the publisher via Netgalley. I’m very grateful to them for a chance to review the book. It was published on 4th May, but I only got it a couple of days before. I’m
Finding Sustainability comes out on June 1st. It’s a non-fiction book, focusing on how one person reconciled his concerns for the state of the planet with his role as a small business owner, manufacturing plastic packaging. As a former environmental
Settings that feel like Characters are what the literary agents are looking for. So says J Lenni Dorner in his introduction to this short book, aimed at authors. The good news is: readers feel your settings more acutely if they
Stephen Hawking was a phenomenon. A Brief History of Time sold 10 million copies worldwide. The author said yes, but hardly anyone read it. It took me thirty years to read my copy, so he may well be right! Leonard
I chose Meadowland to read during #30DaysWild because it seemed the right thing to do. It was on my list for may reasons, not only for its wildlife story, but for research purposes. You may remember that five (already?) years
Erebus; a ship that had a notable adventure in Antarctica. I saw an advert for Michael Palin’s new book, added it to my TBR, and saw it in my library’s ‘new books’ section. Reader, I borrowed it. Erebus: the story of
Saffron is by Sally Francis, who also runs Norfolk Saffron, a business involved in growing and selling, you guessed it – saffron! I bought this book when I went to her open day a couple of years ago. Saffron by
The Future We Choose is about the choices we make now. What sort of world would they lead to? If we knew that, we could choose a future that will be worth living. It’s as simple as that. Of course
My Book of the Year for 2019 is… one of the following. Book of the Year 2019 long list I long list nearly all of those I’ve given five stars on Goodreads during the year. So those are (links to
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,