Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Witchbone Book One ~ The Goblin’s Winter: a paranormal fairy tale is a very long title for a book. Several other things make me wonder whether the author took heed of editorial advice for MG tales [also demonstrated by the
Tricks and treats for Flashback Friday! When Rebecca Douglass reminded me, with her excellent flashback today, I realised that I have been rather irregular over the past few months. As usual, for Halloween I wanted to post what I call
The Blurb Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Characters from books literally
Yes, we’re world-building again on flash fiction day, so I’m pulling out some old-style explorers and setting them off to explore some of the ruins of Mbeya – which features in The Perihelix, the first book of the Viridian System series. I
A Random Song Title Challenge from Chuck Wendig. 1000 words. I always have trouble with these… until I found randomlists.com. This is a song by Sufjan Stevens, apparently. It’s a long time since I used my boxcar scenario, which in
Welcome to the Deja Vu Blogfest 2014, organised by D L Hammons and Nicole Zoltack. Here I have the opportunity to give another outing to one of my best posts of the year, one I think deserves more attention –
Oh, boy! In Matt Archer: Monster Hunter, Matt discovers he is born to hunt monsters with the aid of a knife which seems to give him special powers. Now Matt finds so much more about this knife – and most
It’s a Subgenre Mash-up this week – my favourite! Chuck Wendig gave us a list of 20 genres, we throw a 20 sided die twice. I got 18 & 1 = Noir Haunted House! Sounds fun… and at least I
Welcome to our regular Friday feature, 1000 or so words of slightly weird story, with a smart new button I made in honour of our Challenge guru, Chuck Wendig. Since Chuck hasn’t emerged from hibernation yet, I’ve gone back to
This isn’t my usual sort of book. It is a YA/Adult Fantasy story with powerfully written paranormal romance and action sequences. But it is well constructed, with a well-thought out backstory and world mythology, and it kept me interested. Charmeine
I hate to jump on the paranormal bandwagon but yes, there are vampires and werewolves in this world. The folklore of the realms is as full of the supernatural as the country I really live in. But like my real