Xtraterrestrials is a post I wrote for the 2018 A to Z. I did a lot of work on it, then suddenly there was so much news about exoplanets, that I did that instead. This post on extraterrestrials never saw
Xtraterrestrials #AtoZChallenge
W is for Weird and Weirder #AtoZChallenge2021
Weird and Weirder is the fourth of my Flash Fiction Collections. I’ve been publishing them more or less monthly: the next is out May 6th, then Time and Tinplate on June 10th, and this one on July 8th, giving you
V is for Verse Forms #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Verse forms–of which haiku is one. I mentioned earlier this month that I’d found a whole list of Japanese verse forms: it’s not just haiku. First let me do today’s haiku, which sprang almost immediately into my brain as I
Book Review | Under the Light of a Full Moon #AtoZChallenge
Under the Light of a Full Moon has been on my kindle a while, but I don’t know where it came from. If I got it as a freebie, thank you. If I got it as a Read4Review, thank you
T is for Time and Tinplate #AtoZChallenge2021
Time and Tinplate is the third of my 2021 Flash Fiction Collections. It’s coming out in June –the 10th to be precise– and features the stories in which time or time travel are of the essence. And it’s my T
S is for Saurus #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
Saurus is the Greek for lizard, which is why the dinosaurs were named after them. Tyrannosaurus=tyrant lizard, and the Rex is the king of them. Brontosaurus is Thunder lizard. The plural Sauria forms the sub-order of lizards under the reptile
Rise Up! WEP Flash Fiction Challenge #WEP+IWSG #AtoZChallenge2021
Rise Up is my thought for the illustration in the badge – Freedom Morning by Claude Clarke. It’s a tricky one, because I’m combining the WEP flash fiction challenge with the A to Z Challenge where we’ve reached R. Rise
Questions to ask your Characters #AtoZChallenge2021
Questions help you find out about your characters; lists of them can be found everywhere on the internet. Try these from NaNoWriMo (Googledoc). I first found out about question sheets in my Creative Writing Course. When I did a workshop
P is for Plot, especially Losing It #AtoZChallenge2021
Losing the plot… something I seemed to be up against over the Easter weekend. And then again the following weekend. And as for last weekend, well I spent a goodly part sorting out important things around the house… As you
Book Review | Outlaw Heroes #AtoZChallenge2021
Outlaw Heroes has been in my Kindle a long time, since about November 2013. I have a feeling I picked it up as a special offer – kindle free days or similar. Those were the days! It is definitely a
N is for Notebooks #AtoZChallenge2021
Notebooks–as in nice books in which you can jot down ideas, stories, observations, the story of your life, anything you like. Or give as gifts! Notebooks I use The one thing I don’t use a notebook for is to jot
M is for the Messenger Misadventures #AtoZChallenge2021
The Messenger Misadventures has been out for a week, and I’m very grateful to those people who have already bought it! About the Messenger Misadventures This collection of four short stories for young readers (8+) is set on the Isle
L is for Lenni Dorner–J Lenni Dorner #atozchallenge2021
J Lenni Dorner is a great blogger, and isn’t afraid to step up and run things for the rest of us bloggers to join in. I didn’t realise, when I asked him if he’d like to guest today, that he
K is for Kaa Birith | #CampNaNoWriMo #AtoZChallenge 2021
Kaa Birith is the main antagonist of my Viridian System science fiction series. I thought as I’m writing the third book, Zanzibar’s Rings, this month, it might help if I gave you a hint or two about him. My protagonists
J is for Jemima’s Guest Interview #AtoZChallenge 2021
Yes, Jemima Pett is interviewed on the blog today. There’ll be a wide range of topics, mainly because some things happening in the real world at present require comment. But I hope you enjoy it. First question: why Jemima? What?
Book Review | The Iron Tactician #AtoZChallenge2021
The Iron Tactician was a book I bought in a Storybundle collection, as happens a lot with my random scifi selections. I wasn’t sure I was enjoying it at the time, but I seem to be thinking of it more
H is for Haiku #writephoto #AtoZChallenge 2021
Haiku is a Japanese verse form. Apparently there are lots of different verse forms, and I came across a list of them somewhere recently, but I’ll have to search to find it again. Haiku in my books I’ve been doing
Greed and Retribution #AtoZChallenge2021
Greed and Retribution is the second of my Flash Fiction collection to hit the press. And it’s my G for the A to Z Challenge today. Greed and Retribution: The Carruthers Collection and Other Twisty Tales If you’ve been reading
F is for Fate #IWSG #AtoZChallenge2021
Fate… how much of my writing is left to it? It was fairly difficult to come up with a topic for today, since it is Insecure Writers Support Group day, where we blog about things pertaining to writing, and support
E for Existence – memory and tribute #AtoZChallenge2021
Existence. Something we take for granted, maybe. Certainly when we are younger. I remember I used to run a personal skills course for a company I did interpersonal skills training for. It’s a laugh, really; I used to be really
D for Dylan, Deirdre and Dougall #AtoZChallenge2021
Dylan, Deirdre and Dougall are coming to you on Thursday! They’re my three Ds for the A to Z Challenge today. But if you can’t wait – see below for my pre-sale offer – which subscribers to my mailing list
The Cheshire Bunny #writephoto #AtoZChallenge2021
The Cheshire Bunny is my take on this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. It’s also my second AtoZ post for C! Here’s the photo: If you saw last week’s you’ll know that I’m in a little run
Book Review | Sign of the Green Dragon by C Lee Mckenzie #atozchallenge2021
I’ve had the Sign of the Green Dragon on my TBR for quite a long time, and decided I’d better read it before I give up reading Middle Grade Books. Well, I may read some for fun, but I’m giving
B is for Background – Getting it right #AtoZChallenge2021
Background in the third of a series is vitally important. Especially when you discover it’s several years since you published book 2. This year’s AtoZChallenge is mainly about my writing, and my Work In Progress, a science fiction adventure called
A is for the A to Z Challenge 2021 #atozchallenge2021 #amwriting
A to Z Challenge is not for me, I said. I’m not doing it this year. But I am challenging myself this month, so I decided to make it a Writing Challenge. I have to finish Zanzibar’s Rings this month.