Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Forged in Blood is the finale of the Emperor’s Edge series featuring Amaranthe and her gang of outlaws who are fighting to free the Emperor from the people who would overthrow him. The assassin Sicarius is one of the gang,
Dining Out Around the Solar System is the first in the series of the same name. I read the second one first – Dining Out with the Ice Giants, and I recommend every reader does the same. That was ABSOLUTELY
Welcome, everybody, to my Challenge for the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon 2016. First off, I’m going to explain about my series, then I’ll set you a Challenge, and then there’s the giveaway. The Princelings of the East by Jemima Pett
These were Great Middle Grade Reads books of the month for June, and July/August. The first was nominated as a potential ‘future classic’, and which it may be, but I’m not sure, and the second was nominated as a series read… and
Dear all Well, I’ve been at Camp a week now, and it was a fun start, since I threw all my plans up in the air and started again. Well, I didn’t throw out what I’d done of Willoughby’s story,
Thursday sees the start of Camp NaNoWriMo again, and this year is the first time I’ve done two months of targeted writing, both the April and the July camps. November is not a writing time for me – it’s editing
The price of doing both Camp NaNoWriMo AND the A to Z Challenge in April was that my reading time disappeared completely and my email answering time was sadly neglected. In fact, I only dealt with urgent emails. When I
During my commuting years, I read Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series of British naval adventure on the high (and low) seas in the early 1800s. There are plenty of books in the series – 20, plus one completed posthumously, and I
I’m still catching up with my book reviews, and these were read before starting the Tackle TBR, although to be fair, neither had been on my TBR for long. Noelle Granger’s Death in Dacron Sail had been on the list
My options for today’s flash fiction post were: do 1000 words on ‘why I write’ which is today’s challenge from Chuck Wendig; write 1000 words to one of the random titles that came up a couple of weeks back when
To celebrate the release of the Talent Seekers as a paperback, I thought you’d like to have a quote and question from it this month. I’ll add any buying links I have for the paperback to this post as soon
Yes, I have blasted this series in the past, but not only have they been released with new covers (as have my Princelings books) but there is also a new book out, Book 3: The Healing Stone. Mother Daughter Book