Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
A question about my favourite genre this month for the IWSG question of the month. Tonja Drecker, Victoria Marie Lees, Mary Aalgaard, and Sandra Cox! What is my favourite genre? Despite starting out writing gentle, clean, interesting mysteries set in a fantasy world populated
Critters and Crises launches tomorrow. What? you ask. Well, more below. Today is the Insecure Writers Support Group monthly post. IWSG is a lovely group of people all posting monthly on the first Wednesday of the month, exploring all sorts
Time to go down the TBR Hole again. In August I did the first sweep at reducing my To Be Read list using the strategy devised by Lia at Lost in a Story. Then I did it again, and took the
Pet peeves; something I don’t really have, save for badly edited books and wrong homophones. But this is the first Wednesday of the month, and it’s Insecure Writers Support Group, so I’ll go with the flow. I’d like to thank
Today’s question for the Book Blogger Hop from Coffee Addicted Writer is: If you read a book you ended up hating, would you stay away from future books by that author, or would you give them a second chance? (submitted
The Blurb Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. Characters from books literally
Yay! It’s National Indie Booksellers week again in the UK and Ireland, and Indiebound has a huge lot of things on its website to do and read. I confess I missed this last year, but I’m glad I’m in time
At the beginning of April, I got a surprise email from Goodreads. No, it wasn’t a comment, or an update, or a new giveaway notice, not even a newsletter. It was an email from Otis and Elizabeth Chandler, the founders of
Thanks to Bruce Gargoyle, I’m picking up a lovely idea… a review of the year by completing a set of sentences with books read so far this year! I hope you enjoy them (they won’t be as funny as Bruce’s).
Have you noticed it’s the end of September already? In theory, I should now be sitting with a completed and published book of my dad’s memoirs and have set up the new paperbacks for the Princelings series. Those were the
Read Tuesday is on Tuesday 9th December 2014 It’s a Black Friday type of sales event, but just for books. It will be a great opportunity to buy and gift books at amazing sales prices. It will also be a
One of the blogs I follow is the Mad Reviewer, and I remember some time ago she discussed her reading speed. Being a reviewer, she has to get through a lot of books – and she has the advantage of
After the lunacy of the April A to Z Challenge, it was time for a rest. Except that I was launching Bravo Victor, my sixth book. No rest, then. After the lunacy of the A to Z Challenge and the
As if it wasn’t enough to be doing the Kid Lit Blog Hop, the A to Z April Blog Challenge, the pre-1960s Children’s Classic Reading Challege, and the Goodreads Reading Challenge (not hard), I’ve signed up for another one. The
Books. The foundation of a guinea pig’s education. Every castle has a library. Well, it has to really. Who could have a stately mansion without a library? They tend to be the accumulation of wisdom for all the persons of