Because I’m not very good with either maths or remembering things 😉 Today I am on the Book Reviews and More blog, talking about the musical soundtrack of The Crimson Outlaw – what I found when I went looking for the evidence for what a culture sounds like.
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I’m also talking about why this book set in Transylvania has no vampires in it at all 😉
I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to make myself a banyan (18th Century gentleman’s house coat) to wear in the writing shed and around the house when the heating is not on and the depths of winter are very deep indeed. I found this pattern online http://thebuzzatthehive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-english-bedgown.html and decided it looked easy enough…
False Colors places at no.34 of Elisa Rolle’s Top 100 Gay novels of the year http://www.elisarolle.com/ramblings/top_100_gay_novels_2.htm in some very good company too. I’m thoroughly over the moon and honoured about that. Hee! I’m not quite sure how it’s all worked out, but thank you to whoever is responsible. Elisa, I guess! 🙂 ~ On TV…
So, you have an idea for a story. You’ve asked yourself lots of questions and you know you have a central situation in which one or two main characters find themselves, which they don’t like and want to change. The essence of any story is to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In…
So, I have discovered a 10,000 word story I finished and then left to languish in one of my folders on the computer. It’s not doing anyone any good in there, so I thought I’d post it here, on a Monday, in thousand word installments. If, by the end of it, people like it, I’ll…
So, I abandoned the plan, on the grounds that this was supposed to be fun, and did it really matter if I read the books on the list in the list order? I don’t think so. Instead I read “Lessons in Discovery” by Charlie Cochrane and “Gaveston” by Chris Hunt.
As November draws to a close, and all over the internet come the cries of NaNoWriMo participants reaching their 50K goal for the month, I have achieved my In2.5NoEdMo. My individual month of editing two and a half books – if a novella counts as a half book – turned out to be almost as…
