Surprise! It’s the first Wednesday of the month and time for the Insecure Writers’ Support Group. I’d already started thinking about the suggested question for the month when I got a horrible surprise. I’m going to try to work out
#Flashback Friday | Spaghettification
Spaghettification started out as an independent short story in February 2015, and then became the key to the second book in the Viridian System series. That’s Curved Space to Corsair—I’ve just started the main edit. It’s my offering for Flashback
Book Review | Mercenary Instinct #AtoZChallenge
Mercenary Instinct is my M for the A to Z on Saturday, my book review day. I’m away at my niece’s wedding today, so I’d be grateful for any ‘shares’ on social media! I picked Mercenary Instinct for M since
Book Review | Star Nomad by Lindsay Buroker
The Blurb They have her daughter. She will stop at nothing to get her back. When system-wide civil war broke out, fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko left her family and accepted a commission in the Alliance Army to battle the
Book Review | A Grave Tree by Jennifer Ellis
It was the launch of Pair Alleles, book 4 in this Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis, on 19 September, that prompted me to catch up with book 3. You can read my reviews of A Pair of Docks and A
P is for Pern
In my world-building A to Z we’ve reached P, for which I’ve selected Pern, the world created by Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders series. In a nutshell, the stories are adventures, often featuring strong, powerless young women (and men) with special talents
Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
Helliconia Spring – the first of the Helliconia trilogy by Brian W Aldiss. It came along at a time when I found the books too large and turgid to get into – I don’t know what I read instead, but
Ballybran in The Crystal Singer series by Anne McCaffrey
This year my A to Z theme is world building, and today I’m featuring Ballybran. But it’s also my book review day, so here’s a book review of sorts. B is for Ballybran, and that is the setting for the Crystal Singer
A is for the #AtoZChallenge #FridayFlash World-building Mash-up
Greetings, A2Zers everywhere, as well as to my flash fiction followers. It’s April 1st, and no fooling, it’s the A to Z Challenge again. Since I’m also doing Camp NaNoWriMo, to help me get through my writing schedule this year,
The Perihelix by Jemima Pett
Tomorrow is launch day! Today you can pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. Tomorrow it will be for sale on Smashwords too. By the way, you can also vote for The Traveler in Black and White on AUTHOR SHOUT
Books of the Year
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
Friday Flash Fiction | Surviving the Sleeve
Chuck‘s back, although seemingly exhausted! Our challenge this week is a piece of space opera… nominally in honour of a new Star Wars film. 1000 words. Well, I could have an ‘incident’ with the Federation and the Imperium… set post-Perihelix. purists
Double Book Review: Rex Rising and In the Shadows of the Mosquito Constellation
The trouble with not doing your book review straight after reading the book is that sometimes you don’t do it for months. And that means sometimes you’ve forgotten what the book was about. The up side of this, is that
⌗Fi50 for August – A Calculated Risk
The prompt for this month’s fiction in fifty words came just as I was playing with the second book in the Viridian series. If you’re keen to be a beta reader of the first book, The Perihelix, and I haven’t
Have you found StoryBundle yet?
Yesterday was Insecure Writers’ Support Group Day, which I clean forgot. I apologise to all writers, insecure or otherwise, for being so out of synch with myself after finishing the final (well, beta) draft of The Perihelix, that I couldn’t