If anyone ever says to you – as English people seem inclined to say – “what a shame we have no culture of our own at all.” Tell them they should have been at the Straw Bear Festival this year, but that it’s not too late to go to next year’s. Or perhaps they were…
It must be nice to be one of those writers who feels expert enough in things to answer other people’s questions. Wednesday’s blog post aside, I’m not really one of them. I have a head full of questions and doubts that rarely if ever seem to get resolved. Today I’m airing my questions and doubts…
A DIY guide. I decided on Monday that I would talk about this. On Tuesday Chuck Wendig, freelance penmonkey, posted 25 Things Authors should know about finding their voice on his blog, at which point I threw my hands in the air and went “Oh, fine, I won’t write a blog post then!” (Because, let’s…
To get the writing started again after the enforced break of Christmas, I found myself signing up at the PicFor1000 community on Livejournal. The idea of which is that they give you a picture, and you write a story of 1000 words inspired by that picture. I was fortunate enough to get this http://www.flickr.com/photos/altamiranopics/4559939756/sizes/m/in/photostream/ which…
Cor, the length of that title. Anyway, if you remember, I mentioned that Diesel ebooks was doing a special offer on By Honor Betrayed on 01/03/2012. Being British, I saw that date and thought “first of March? I’ll never remember to remind people that far off.” However, thanks to the lovely Jay Rookwood, I’ve been…
I don’t know that I ever posted about seeing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows just before Christmas. I ranted about it on Yahoo groups instead. Basically I thought it was fun, with some lovely explosions and much to recommend it to lovers of big guns, but I felt it would have been much improved…
I never quite saw the point of marking the passing of the year – after all, it’s only meaningless numbers on an arbitrary calendar, which could quite easily end or begin somewhere else. It’s not a real thing in the way that a solstice is a real thing – measurable and with observable consequences. Now,…
Hee! I want to say that this is a good way to start the new year, but actually it’s more that it’s a good way to end the old one 🙂 with this lovely review from Jessewave’s blog: If you are looking for a lovely historical from a talented author, look no further than By…
I have emerged from Christmas, and yet I still don’t feel as if it actually happened this year. It’s an odd feeling, comparable to going through some frightening initiation rite and coming out the other side completely unchanged. Something ought to have happened, but it didn’t. One of the things that didn’t happen was a…
