Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Willoughby finishes his story, and jumps off the platform called the fiddlesticks to rapturous applause. Quite how he got so popular in such a short time nobody really knows, except he brought some new angles on old stories, and new
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
I’ve been doing Flash Fiction on Fridays for a long time now, and my first reaction on seeing Michael D’Agostini’s Flashback Friday was to think, no – I do flash fiction then. But I need to write and edit my books, and
Apart from my Fi50 offering on Wednesday, this is my last post before Christmas, so you’ll find a set of stories on my book sites to keep you going: Christmas in the Delta Quadrant – Easy Come, Easy Go on the
quinquennial adj. and n. OED Word of the Day (last Tuesday): quinquennial, adj. and n. A fifth anniversary, among other things… It’s five years since I started this blog. That’s quite a milestone. Amazingly (by missing out Monday) THIS IS
The Flash Fiction challenge this week was to come up with a title – which we’ll obviously be writing something for next week. So, in honour of my blog tour, and to give you an absolute exclusive, here is a
My Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and to celebrate I’m giving away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. I did consider giving away one copy of each of the books, but I’m not
I’m taking the Princelings of the East series on the road from September 22nd to 5th October 2015, with the help of the wonderful Tonya at My Family’s Heart. We’ll be scheduling posts for reviews, interviews (me and characters), and excerpts. If
Just before I went to camp, I contacted the MG BookElves about plans for the coming winter holiday season, to see who would be interested in contributing to another Anthology. I also gave them some updates on our sales figures (free
Of course, the big challenge for this month is to finish the revised draft of The Perihelix and get it to my editor. Camp ends on Friday, so how am I doing on that? Well, I’ve finished. I’ve won, in
It’s the old story, isn’t it? We work by day and write by night, and then we wonder why we’re so tired. I started joking some time ago that I’m now a full-time publisher, and in my spare time I
It’s been a crazy month. Anyone who self-publishes knows the hoops you have to go through to get your file ready for Kindle. If, like me, you like your books to go to other ereaders like Nook and Kobo or
Firstly, if you had a note about ‘On being your own accountant’ that will appear next Monday. Smashwords were incredibly late kicking off Read an EBook Week this year, and I was only able to enter my books for it
I’m getting terribly behind in my reading. There are some reasons for this – I had a review lined up of Wendy Leighton-Porter’s fifth book, Shadow of the Volcano, but realised it fits perfectly into my A to Z Challenge