Nocturne and A Quick Death are two books suitable for YA readers by indie authors I’ve been following for a long time, namely Cheryl Mahoney and Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine. I didn’t read them just because of the Alphabet
Book Review | Marple: Twelve New Stories
Twelve New Stories involving Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple? Purists will be up in arms. Me, I’m delighted my favourite crime authors took part. Thank you,NetGalley and the publishers, HarperCollinsUK, for a chance to read this book. It came out on
Book Review | Untethered
Untethered is a recent anthology from Rhonda Parrish. She is prolific with these, and every author should check out her website to see if their writing might have suited past calls, and what the current call for submission is (Women
Book Launch | A Quick Death by @PJLAuthor
Patricia Josephine is launching A Quick Death – tomorrow!! I’m so glad I got this post in time to use this wonderfully macabre banner! You may remember Patricia stumped me for a bit during my Zanzibar’s Rings launch tour by
Through | #writephoto + The Business of Short Stories
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
25% off paperbacks this weekend 12-14 November 2021!
Paperbacks? Yes, a 25% discount on paperback copies of my Unexpected Twisty Tales Collection this weekend – courtesy of Blurb.com, my production partner. Paperbacks covered This only applies to my paperbacks exclusively through the Blurb store. Does not include Princelings,
Book Reviews | Flash Fiction collections by Rebecca M. Douglass
Rebecca Douglass is no stranger to this blog, and readers here will likely have visited The Ninja Librarian to read the flash fiction on Rebecca’s blog too. We both got the idea of flash fiction collections at the same time,
Thank goodness it’s February #IWSG
Thank goodness January is over. I’m not sure how much of my attitude for the last couple of weeks has been down to the start of the year, Covid, hiding away in my little lockdown space and wondering what the
Book Review Binge | Let’s scale the TBR mountain roundup
This second Book Review Binge is to catch up with books I read in December, attempting to reach the summit of my Mount TBR Challenge for the year. I selected them from my Kindle on the basis they looked short,
#IWSG | How this writer stopped blaming her tools and got writing
Hello IWSG-ers. Welcome to August. I know, how did we get here so fast? This month’s IWSG newsletter poses a very long question. The end of it was: Have you ever written a piece that became a form, or even
Book Review | Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas
Swashbuckling Cats… is a new anthology from Rhonda Parrish. I hate to say latest, as she’s so prolific, but since it is out this coming week, surely it must be! Already the calls for the next are out, tantalising me
Double Book Review | Scifi Anthology special
Two anthologies for you today, to help me catch up on my reviews. I like reading anthologies when I’m busy, because of the easy put-down, pick-up nature of the book. The downside is I find it almost impossible to remember
#Fi50 | My family is so weird
‘My Family is So Weird’ is the prompt for today’s Fiction in Fifty Words Fi50. I found this more difficult that a single or double-word prompt, maybe because it was a complete sentence. Nevertheless there were plenty of ways to
#Fi50 | Fiction in 50 words – Make a Note
50 words are not enough for a full story – or are they? I nearly changed the post title to ‘dementia in 50 words’ today, because I realised what I wanted to write about as I started to write. Let’s
#FridayFlash Fiction | The Kings Council
The Kings Council provides the forum for all the heads of castles in the Princelings Realms to rule harmoniously. Today’s 250 word flash fiction demonstrates how. It’s for the Bloggers Bash Blog Post Competition. You can enter too! The Kings