Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Giftmas is a fundraiser by Rhonda Parrish, a blog hop that aims to raise money for the Edmonton Alberta Foodbank. You may feel up to donating to the foodbank, through the link below, but if not, please consider donating, in
It’s finally happened! I’m now on Draft2Digital. You may have been there for two years, I know, but there was a hitch for those of us that had publisher accounts AND author accounts at Smashwords. I’d been 14 years with
I always need a Book Review Round-up of some kind, every year. There are always ones that got away, short books that I didn’t have much to say about, collections that should be treated together. This one started with my
This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes us to Cromer, and this shop with pistachio and pecan goodies. I’ve been reading Slow Gods (review next month), and the two sort of merged together into something nutty. It’s 159 words. With another
Last time I went down the TBR Hole my list ended at 914 (plus 7 in currently reading). I’m pruning things from my TBR list I am never going to read, realistically. I am posting monthly for a bit, then
Artificial Evolution is the third book in Joseph R Lallo’s Big Sigma series. The previous were Bypass Gemini and Unstable Prototypes. He’s also responsible for the Free-Wrench series, and you know how much I loved that. This is more straight
This week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes us to a telephone box in the middle of Ringland woods, not far from where I used to live. This might not translate too well for US readers, but then again… It’s 195 words,
Yertle the Turtle was added to my TBR in desperation as I searched for a title beginning with Y for my Alphabet Soup reading challenge. You may find it hard to believe, but I had never before read anything by
Given how much time I spend trying to communicate with my animals, What Sheep Think About the Weather appeared to be the ideal book for me. The blurb promises ideas and techniques to understand animals better, to see things from
This week Crimson’s Creative Challenge gives us good vibrations in the woods on Mousehold Heath, just outside the City of Norwich. You get a fabulous view of the city from there. The beech trees with their mounds and neighbouring paths
Jane Austen and me. We would have been well acquainted, I think, although I would need to be rather more ladylike to fit into her friendship circle. Would she have been generous with her writing advice, or was the critique
A Homework report! I never tell you what I’ve been up to behind the scenes with any regularity, and it doesn’t show as outputs (unless I direct you to it), so I decided to do a new feature on the
I have 2 time travel reviews for you today. The Book of Lost Hours is recommended by Net-galley and the publishers for lovers of The Ministry of Time and the Midnight Library, among others. Hmm, that sounds like me then.
A tapestry of colours in this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge. Although…it’s not one of the Challenge photos, it’s one from the Sunday post that inspired me more. It’s what happens when you decide you need more coloured pencils to do
The IWSG question of the month for November asks about life as a writer. I had a look at all the other things that go on at IWSG as listed in the monthly email. I wonder whether I really want