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This year the standard was even higher than last year, and we were, again, struggling with the problem that we had so many good stories that we had to reject some for no better reason than that they were too long, or they were ever so slightly less relevant to the theme than other stories…
It’s selection time in the Smart Bitches’ annual DABWAHA contest which is a kind of knock down, drag out, contest between an initial selection of 64 books. They go up against each other in several rounds of voting until there’s only one left. This year, False Colors is in the starting blocks in the LGBT…
and I may have a new fandom 🙂 What an excellent film! I do like a film where I come away from it with a head that feels as if it’s been stuffed full of new and interesting things to think about. I’m not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, and this hasn’t really changed that. …
If you’ve got a gmail account and a Google profile, you may not even be aware yet that Google’s new Buzz social networking service makes all your email contacts public. As far as I understand it, that means that anyone gets to check up on who you email, and who you have ever emailed to…
Those of you who’ve known me a while will have seen me blog about this book and Angels of Istanbul, its sequel, for years. I know there are folks out there who want to see epic historical fantasy where the protagonists are queer, but the story is not about the queerness – the story is…
21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them? I’ve written characters who are children (Oswy in the Witch’s Boy who is an 11 year old protagonist), and I’ve written my fanfiction characters as children. I’ve written Farrant running alongside his son’s pony, and Elizabeth Sheldrake with her baby, but…
