Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Theme reveal and WriteClub19 all in one post! WriteClub19 WriteClub19 submissions open today! Hop over to DL Hammons’ website to get all the details and/or upload your story. Remember, it has to be under 500 words and not reveal your
Revelation Space was the December book of the month for the Space Opera Group on Goodreads. Yes, I’m a bit late reading it, due to my library not stocking it, even thought they had the second in the series in.
Lucky Leprechauns, it’s time for your St Patrick’s Day Giveaway! Thank you so much to Mary at Bookhounds for keeping these opportunities going! Since I’ve been busy bringing books out in the first couple of months of 2019, I thought
The Bloggers Bash Competition this year is on the theme of FIVE. quintus ~ cinq ~ cinco ~ fünf ~ pente ~ khms ~ wu ~ tano Or… in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian, it is pet—
A Man Called Ove was my (physical) bookclub’s read for February. I’d heard of it, and thought it was on my TBR, but it wasn’t. Maybe I’d rejected it after going down the TBR hole once upon a time. A
Greetings, Insecure Writers – WRiTECLUB19 is just around the corner. In fact the official announcement was made on Monday, so anything I’m saying is announced at DL Hammons’ website far more authoritatively. What is WriteClub19? I thought most of my
Read an Ebook Week runs at the beginning of March each year. Over at Smashwords, Mark Coker recommends we all take part and get in on a promotion where people just love to find new authors. I used to join
Dining out with the Gas Giants is the third in a wonderful series by Clare O’Beara. I started with the second, loved it, and added the first one last year. I don’t think there’s any problem with that approach. The
Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge opens today! It’s the tenth year, and I’ve done seven of them. You can sign in here. What is blogging from A to Z? A post every day of the month except
No More Hearts and Flowers was a prompt I came up with for Fi50 (actually I submitted it for the February WEP but 28 days won)! In the post-Valentines days of February, I hope you don’t identify too much with
The Age of Misadventure is the second novel by Judy Leigh. HarperCollins, the publishers, offered me an ARC through Netgalley, since I’d reviewed A Grand Old Time during last year’s #AtoZChallenge and loved it. Read on to find out what I thought of
J Lenni Dorner is my last guest for the AtoZ Challenge Book Review Blog Tour, which is part of the AtoZ’s tenth birthday celebrations. His book is yet to be published, and the posts will be part of his April
28 days, the title for February, went around my brain for a few circuits before I got two strands of inspiration. The suggestions from the WEP team when announcing the prompt covered so many angles it was hard to find
Children of Time was January’s Book of the Month for the Space Opera Group on Goodreads. It sounded really interesting, and since I’d finished my own series for the time being, I hoped to read some scifi for a change
Rebekah Loper wrote a book as a result of her A-Z Challenge one year. Her theme – worldbuilding. Since I did the same some years later, I was delighted to see what she’d made of the subject. Answer – a
Another new book follows hard on the heels of Curved Space to Corsair. This time, it’s back to the Princelings series with…. The Princelings of the East Books 4-6 I said I needed to read the earlier books again before
Rebel of the Sands first caught my attention because of its gorgeous cover. I think I added it to my list pretty quickly. Then it was nominated in the Goodreads Book of the Year 2016, and I voted for it
Tony Laplume blogs from A to Z in April. One year he wrote a set of 26 character sketches which became a novella. And so it came to pass that it arrived in my hands to review as part of
The most miniscule details can make or break a book. Well, if you’re as picky as me, anyway. Since it’s Insecure Writers Support Group day, you can tell me whether I’m right, or too finicky, or should just lighten up
As mentioned in January, the A to Z Review and book tour blog hop runs from today to the end of February. A Book of my A to Z Challenge It’s a really interesting premise. Have you made a book
A Pinch of Magic is new release, which I received from the publisher via Net-Galley. The blurb looked interesting, although I disliked all the gushing quotes from other authors included on Goodreads – which I have left out here. For
Flashback Friday is supposed to happen on Friday but I decided there was too much happening last week. Today is Thursday. I delved back into the archives for January posts and discovered Death By Trombone was launched in January 2016. I know
The Body in the Snow by Christoph Fischer was the last book I read in 2018, giving me the major achievement of completing my Mount TBR target of 36 books. I’ve missed this by two in the last two years.
Icy Fingers is the prompt for today’s Fi50, or the Fiction in fifty words meme. I’m hoping more people will join in, since fifty words stories are fun to write. Rebecca is away, so I don’t suppose she’ll be posting
Curved Space for Corsair is out at last! Yes, today the second book in my Viridian System series launches on all ereader platforms. There are some details, and excerpt, and a bit about me (in case you’d like to share