Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me sounds like it should be a great read for a kid whose grandma or pa has dementia. I’m including this in Great Middle Grade Reads this week because I thought it was an MG book
Life of Pi has been on my to-read list for several years. I remember seeing dozens of fellow-commuters reading it on the train, but I was into other things then. Now it’s the first in my Booker Prizewinner Challenge. (Library
Windflowers… well, I think these are windflowers, but the ones I know are very much paler. But I think the leaves are the same. Anyway, the picture of pink ones is my choice for Crispina Kemp‘s weekly Crimson’s Creative Challenge.
The Ghost Door comes from Ruth at Ruth Blogs Here. I just knew there was a story here when Ruth posted it to say the blog would be blank for a few days. It turned out to be 900 words
The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal by Jodi Taylor caught my eye as I checked the latest offerings from Netgalley. Thank you to them and the publishers for an ARC. It was published on Thursday (8th May). The Ballad of
The Snail Who Sang was a pretty much instant response to Crispina’s challenge this week. CCC is Crimson’s Creative Challenge. Each Wednesday Crispina posts four pictures as prompts for us to do something creative — in 150 words or less.
Everyone should co-host a monthly IWSG meeting. Some of us do it regularly, some maybe do it just once, but everyone should do it, as it’s not hard and it’s enjoyable! Feather Stone, Janet Alcorn, Rebecca Douglass, Pat Garcia. and me! This
Reflections are sometimes rippled and indistinct. That’s rather how I feel now about this years A2Z, although I enjoyed it while it was happening. Reflections… Old friends, New friends I visited lots of old friends who were doing it, and
Sirens is the fourth of the Magical Menageries series, edited by Rhonda Parrish. Trust me to start this set with the last one, Equus which I read eight years ago, and I’m working backwards for a change. I’ll have the
Breydon Water – a well-known spot for bird watching in Norfolk. Junction of several rivers all fighting to get out into the North Sea through a narrow gap. And featured in several Princelings books, notably Princelings and the Pirates! CCC
Zigzag. That’s my choice for the last post of this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this month is illustration, so I must show you z type images. Easier said than done. My ten Princelings books and the two
Yule. It’s the last week of this year’s A to Z Challenge and here we are at Y. I first thought of Yule, which is celebrated in the Princlengs world when we would celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza and a few
It’s the last week of this year’s A to Z Challenge and I’ve reached probably the most difficult letter, X. I always think of X Marks the Spot, which was a short story I wrote which turned out to be
The Wanderers fits into my A to Z Challenge today, as my usual Saturday book review, plus a few of my book illustrations that fit today’s theme. I’m Jemima Pett, author, blogger, illustrator and guinea pig wrangler. My interests are
It’s the last Friday of this year’s A to Z Challenge and I’ve reached the place where the baddies turn out to come from, Castle Vexstein. I’m continuing the illustration theme, with a set of internal and external views of