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The Rainbow Awards have now concluded. So I want to say thank you so much to Elisa_Rolle and all the volunteers who helped her to set up a hugely ambitious awards system in record time and run it so smoothly. Mega congratulations to the winners! Especially Tamara Allen and Kyell Gold, joint winners of the…
8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read? I don’t honestly know. I’ve very much enjoyed writing historical, but I also love contemporary magic realism, or historical/paranormal/mystery. I enjoy reading Age of Sail, mystery, romance, fantasy, science fiction. I don’t think I’d normally seek out a Western, but I very much enjoyed Calico by…
In reply to my “help, I can’t think of anything to blog about!” post recently, Wulfila asked my opinion on “the current development of the self-publishing vs. traditional publishing situation”. I’ve been lucky enough to try all three types of publishing. Running Press, who published False Colors was a biggish traditional mainstream publisher. Most of…
Introducing Porthkennack, A New Shared World Series! Welcome to Porthkennack, a charming Cornish seaside town with a long and sometimes sinister history. Legend says King Arthur’s Black Knight built the fort on the headland here, and it’s a certainty that the town was founded on the proceeds of smuggling, piracy on the high seas, and…
So, I went to the physiotherapist today, and she prodded my shoulder and asked me to demonstrate how far I could raise my arm in various directions, and how well I could push against resistance. This apparently showed her that my muscles were in good shape, but the problem was with the capsule of the…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Unlike most people, I’m not a Peter Jackson fan. While I was as wowed and delighted by The Fellowship of the Rings movie as anyone, the travesty that was The Two Towers disenchanted me to such an extent that not even the largely-better-but-still-wrong Return of the King managed to rescue….
