Pair Alleles is book 4 in the wonderfully mind-bending Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis. We follow twins Abbey and Caleb, who are both ‘gifted’ – Abbey starts the series at around age 12 studying with the 16-18 year old
Book Launch | Abducted Life by Patricia Josephine
I’m very happy to join in the launch party for the latest by Patricia Josephine (aka Patricia Lynne) ABDUCTED LIFE. Blurb Savannah Janowitz’s perfect life was destroyed the night she and her boyfriend vanished without a trace. When she reappears
#Tackle TBR Readathon Challenge
Welcome, everybody, to my Challenge for the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon 2016. First off, I’m going to explain about my series, then I’ll set you a Challenge, and then there’s the giveaway. The Princelings of the East by Jemima Pett
Book Review |The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
This was a book of the Month in the Goodreads Space Opera group, and I think it’s the first of their books I’ve read since I joined. I’m so pleased I did, as you’ll see below! I borrowed this book
Double Book Review | ‘Up Up and Away’ and ‘Karmack’
These were two middle grade books I read during my Clean Sweep Challenge in May, and they couldn’t be more different. Up, Up, and Away: Advice and Adventures from the Future Authors and Astronauts of Farnsworth Aerospace The lengthy title
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Inspector Calls
Today’s challenge from Chuck is to start with a stranger at the door and write 1000 words. I fancied a little more Viridian System backstory – you may find referring to my world-building post on Ulric useful, but it’s not important.
Nevermore in Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr
N is for Nevermore, the planet central to Judith Tarr’s splendid book Forgotten Suns. Saturday is book review day, even during the April A to Z, but I’ll be slanting it towards my theme of world-building, and in addition, I
Book Review | The Rosetta Man … and Cover Wars!
I received an ARC of The Rosetta Man by Claire McCague from LibraryThing as a First-read, and it certainly lived up to my expectations from the description! “What makes The Rosetta Man stand-out? An unusually dense squirrel population for sci-fi.
Book Review | Tails of the Apocalypse by Chris Pourteau et al
I think I got an ARC via Jennifer Ellis, who is one of the wonderful authors in this anthology of dystopia, or rather apocalypse, short stories. The twist is that they all feature a ‘companion animal’ or a would-be one
#Fi50 – An Unexpected Arrival – and reading challenge round-up
This is my #Fi50 – Fiction in Fifty Words – for November, with the prompt as the title. It’s a Viridian System snippet of Dolores’ backstory, which will make little sense if you haven’t read any of Big Pete and the Swede’s adventures
M Pax’s Realms Faire starts today
I signed up for this a couple of months back, not entirely sure of what I was letting myself in for. There is an organiser, M Pax, and a number of people who are hosting a tournament of on-line games (see link
Book Review Round-up
Since the Tackle TBR challenge, I’ve had a slowdown in my reading rate. But there were a few books I hadn’t reviewed before that challenge started, and with the Book v Movie last week, I felt the need to catch
Postcard from Camp – 18 July
Hi all Things are going well, but I must be the only writer in the world who edits a book and ends up with thousands more words. Most people say they tighten it up and remove at least 10%, often more.
Flash Excerpt and Question
A mash-up of a post for this Friday – it’s not really Flash Fiction, but it’s only 610 words, so it’s a sort of extended Quote and Question. This is from about halfway through The Perihelix (which I’m editing at present,
Book Review | Wind Catcher by Jeff Altabef and Erynn Altabef
I received a free ebook of Wind Catcher as part of a MDBR Book Review Blast. I understood it was an upper MG fantasy, which is stretching what I think is appropriate, and I’d classify it as YA with a young