Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Farming. That is a really difficult prompt this week from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Of course, my colleagues will come up with brilliant takes on the idea. People I meet at craft fairs ask where my ideas come from. Without
Bleeding Heart Yard is the third Harbinder Kaur crime thriller from Elly Griffiths. Thank you, NetGalley and Quercus Books for the ARC. I’m delighted this series is extending – read my reviews of The Stranger Diaries and the Postscript Murders
This is How You Lose the Time War. It sounds so intriguing, and I’d heard great things of it. And of course, I had to add it to my list for the Spacetime reading challenge! This is How You Lose
The red door. I’ve always thought red a great colour for a front door, although I’ve never used it. This is the prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com for this week’s #writephoto. I’m posting this 870 word flash fiction a
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
Jane Austen has quite a following. In the millions, and that’s just those still alive. I enjoy her books, and Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy is my enduring image of Pride and Prejudice. She lived in Chawton, in southern Hampshire, not
A meeting place in the woods. I had a few ideas as soon as I saw the #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com on Thursday afternoon. That was before the world changed fundamentally, for several million people, and most
Dining Out on Planet Mercury is the fourth, and probably last of the Dining Out around the Solar System series. A futuristic London is the setting for our intrepid journalists as they fight for the underdogs of the solar system
‘What sells’ reflects on my first year of doing Craft & Gift Fairs through a wonderful South of England company called Mynt Image Ltd. ‘What would I not tackle’ is the IWSG question for today. Kim Lajevardi, Cathrina Constantine, Natalie Aguirre, Olga Godim, Michelle
Fledgling. I always dither about words with -dg- combined with -ling when writing them. Some surnames and placenames have an e, some don’t. Why? Swan. That’s this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. Fledgling was last week’s. I
Voyage of the Lanternfish captured my imagination a while ago. Thank you Sally Cronin; her review prompted me to pull it out of the lower levels of my TBR. And now I have yet another first in series under my
Beyond the Frozen Horizon comes out today, according to Netgalley, who kindly send me an ARC. I’ve been reading a lot over the summer. With a log-jam of reviews to give you, I thought I’d slot this one in today.
Femina is subtitled, A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It. Says it all, really. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers, I got a late ARC for the book (plus an update with good
I’ve spent the last three days talking about my chapter illustrations. You know I did them for the Princelings series – and most were specific to each book. Yes, I re-used several: views of Castle Buckmore, the Inn of the
Shadows from the Past is the amazingly wonderful time-travelling series for middle grade readers from Wendy Leighton-Porter. And much loved by adults like me! Especially if you like cats, or reluctant heros, or any combination of these things. I caught