Captivating is the prompt for Thursday. There wasn’t one for Wednesday when another meme takes over – One Liner Wednesday. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something down for the
Do you like Reading Challenges | #IWSG
Happy New Year! Here we are in 2024 and I’m starting a new year of Reading Challenges. As we writers are exhorted to read, and read widely, to improve our own writing skills, I thought it was fair to combine
Train + Gregorian | #JusJoJan24 the 1st + 2nd
Train is the prompt for 1st January. You may notice it’s Jan 2nd already, so I’m catching up with a two in one jotting. Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot
Best Book of the Year 2023
So this is it. Of nearly seventy fiction and non-fiction titles I’ve read this year, which is the best book? Which ones will I be recommending, or have I been recommending, at my Craft Fair stall? Given that I’m still
Book Review | Loot by Tania James
Loot by Tania James came to me as an ARC from netgalley and the publishers. I thank all the publishers who have sent me copies this year – there have been a lot of them and I’ve mostly enjoyed them.
Grotto | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Grotto – a great #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2Writing.com. It took me less than five minutes to get the spark for the first line of this one, and I enjoyed writing it. I hope nobody is offended, though.
Book Review | Juicy Ghosts by Rudy Rucker
Juicy Ghosts has been sitting on my Kindle for about eighteen months, and I’d earmarked it for this year’s J in the Alphabet Soup Challenge. A nice weird conclusion, really! I got it in a storybundle and then got some
A Year to Forget plus some fun #IWSG
I think 2023 was a year to forget for me. The good news is that I have recently had some improvement in both my wrists and my neck/shoulders, and I am generally feeling more positive about doing things. The decision
Book Review | Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Untamed Shore came to me in a Storybundle. I usually get scifi or fantasy, and sometimes expand my mind a little by getting collections from international authors. So when I started reading this book, I was expecting something like Mexican
Space Time Reading Challenge 2024 – sign up here!
SpaceTime Reading Challenge does what it says: it challenges you to sign-up to read a number of books in the space science fiction and time travel genres. As with previous years, there are four categories to choose from: I’ve been
Book Review | Kiwi and the Missing Magic (Kiwi series #2)
I read Kiwi in Cat City a long time ago, and it’s taken a while to return to this lovely, funny, and highly imaginative series. It’s a first class read for middle graders, and adults with a sense of humour
Treehouse | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Treehouse, the prompt from KL Caley for #writephoto, brought me inspiration today, I’m very pleased to say. And my hands felt well enough to type, even after a busy craft fair at Salisbury on Saturday. The steroid injection in my
Book Review | The Lost Steersman (Steerswoman #3)
The Lost Steersman continues the series I’ve been enjoying so much, following the Steerswoman and the Outskirter’s Secret. The Lost Steersman (Steerswoman Series #3) by Rosemary Kirstein How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never
Book Review | The Wife, the Mistress, and the Guinea Pig….
Yes, you got me at guinea pig. Don’t worry, there is only one guinea pig in this collection of stories. But there are also dogs, cats, and possibly sheep. Thank you to Barb Taub for inspiring her U3A group and
Book Reviews | The Emperor’s Edge #8 and #9
Over the years I’ve read all seven of the Emperor’s Edge series, Lindsay Buroker’s wonderful alternative universe with some elements of steampunk and other of scifi. It starts when Amaranthe is kicked out of the Emperor’s law-enforcers for something she