Nurgh…

I’ve finally got into the swing of writing The Pilgrims’ Tale this week, and my conflicting relationship with first drafts is out in full force.  On the one hand I’m full of excitement at the unplanned things my characters are doing and the ways in which they’re doing them.  Today, for example, I’m thinking “Ooh,…

This one is from someone who calls herself the mean fat old bat, which gives me the impression that she isn’t automatically this nice about everything 😉 http://meanfatoldbat.blogspot.com/2013/01/blessed-isle-by-alex-beecroft-novellamm.html “I don’t know how to tell you how much I loved this book. You know I don’t care for novellas as a rule, but this is a…

So, this week I have gone from nothing to a rough plot plan of the next book I’m going to write. I say nothing, but I knew I wanted to write a Fantasy with queer heroes, so that was somewhere to start. I do like to have a little bit of m/m romance in there…

Another day has passed and I’ve barely written 300 words.  I don’t know what’s going on with Blessed Isle – maybe it’s because I’ve got to the grimmest part and even Garnet’s flippancy has deserted him – but it’s been such a struggle this week.  Today I think I deleted more than I wrote. I…

So, today our friendly local vicar, Mark, in full knowledge of what I write, has asked me to go into our local church primary school on Wednesday and talk to the 5-11 year olds for 10 minutes about being an author.  Preferably working something about God in there too. I’m thinking I’ll say something about…

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…