The K’Barthan Extras are a series of novella-length stories featuring the Pan of Hamgee – the star of M T McGuire’s funny, fantastic, thrilling fantasy/scifi series. I reviewed the first two in January. These are just as good. Close Enough
Desk | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Desk was provided as a prompt last March (2023), so I thought I’d slip it in here. It’s from the writephoto meme by KL Caley at New2Writing.com, but unfortunately KL is on hiatus. I have recently discovered that my neck
Book Review | Kiwi and the Serpent of the Isle
Serpent of the Isle is book 4 in the Kiwi series. I started out to read book 3 Kiwi and the Living Nightmare. Only when I’d finished, and thought the blurb sounded nothing like what I’d read, I investigated further.
When did you last update your book descriptions? #IWSG
Update your book descriptions? Why? Those were my questions when I read an interesting post on marketing your Amazon titles at Jane Friedman’s website. Kristina Kelly, Miffie Seideman,Jean Davis, and Liza @ Middle Passages Update Book descriptions to increase your Amazon Rankings That,
Viridian and Princelings Offers in Read an Ebook Week #ebookweek24
Offers – I’m trying not to do them these days, but Bob mentioned he’d missed a Princelings book or two, and I thought I’d run something for Read an Ebook Week this year. Princelings ebooks on offer 3-9 March You
Book Review | The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
The Last Word is Elly Griffiths’ latest crime novel. Listed as a standalone, it reprises characters from the first Harbinder Kaur novel, the Postscript Murders, and Harbinder also appears in this one. I wish Elly would stop using ‘The Last…’
Flashback Fiction #writephoto | Still waters
Still was this week’s #writephoto prompt from Sue Vincent in 2020. It was my first writephoto; I planned to do one a month, and ended up doing them weekly till my hands went just over a year ago (is it
Book Review | Queen of Chaos (Sequoyah #3)
Queen of Chaos by Sabrina Chase is the third and last in the Sequoyah trilogy. I thoroughly enjoyed the first, and left rather too long a gap before reading book 2 last year. Thus I planned to read this early
Arrowslit | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Arrowslit is a writephoto prompt from January 23. We haven’t heard from KL Caley for a while, and I hope all is well with her and her family. Sending love, KL. I’m back in the Realms, picking up on the
Book Review | What If? Serious Scientific Answers …
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is a book I picked up at Waterstones in Norwich several years ago now. I did look in it a couple of times when I was considering the use of vacuum
Flashback Fiction: Twisted Love
Twisted Love was the Chuck Wendig prompt for Valentine’s day in 2014. I came up with this story in response, about 1300 words. It’s firmly set in the late stages of the Princelings of the East stories, possibly even during
Book Review | Water: Sirens, Selkies and Sea Monsters
Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters is the last of four anthologies edited by Rhonda Parrish in the Elemental Anthologies series. My story was shortlisted for the Earth one, so I wanted to read more… Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea
Fancy some extra reading? #IWSG
Extra reading is something I rarely need, but I got an email from a research group, and I thought I’d pass it on to you. As if getting through my review list to fit one book in every Saturday, or
Book Review | The Last Murder at the End of the World
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton is out at the end of next month. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the chance of a review copy. Netgalley gives the publication date as
Calendar | #JusJoJan24 the 30th
Calendar is the prompt for Tuesday. This is probably my last post, although watch this space as I might try One Liner Wednesday. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something