Woo! I have a duology. That sounds very fine. Even better is the fact that I can now say that Under the Hill: Bombers’ Moon should be out in April 2012, followed in May 2012 by Under the Hill: Dogfighters. I sent off the cover art sheets today, so it’s all beginning to feel a…
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,…
Today I’m handing over my various blogs to Kay, whose debut novel Bound for the Forest came out yesterday, and is all lovely fresh and new She’s talking about something dear to my heart, which is the link between Fantasy and Historical fiction, and how sometimes it can be difficult to tell which is…
So, I continue to phase in and out of life on line. I’ve been avoiding the computer most of the summer, but I really ought not to just disappear like that, and this post is an attempt to come back. (As an aside, I’ve seen advice on line saying “for God’s sake don’t start your…
Today I’ve got the honour of handing my blog over to Erik, author of The Equinox Convergence and the Lambda Award winning Normal Miguel. I was fortunate enough to read Normal Miguel when I did cover art for it – a gorgeous book, full of life and detail, and with a scene in it that…
I go away and everything happens at once – which is sort of like busses (and how you wait hours for one and then three come within seconds of each other.) I’m not really back from my holidays yet, since the girls haven’t yet gone back to school, but I am at least back from…
It may be apparent, from all the little snippets of wild and wacky information I’m coming across, that I’m doing research at the moment. Previously I’ve tended to think “nobody could be interested in this stuff. Just put the book down and walk away.” But this time around, I thought it might be fun to…
I thought this was interesting, and went some way towards answering all those people who dislike Arwen because she does nothing more strenuous in the war of the rings than to send Aragorn a banner that she had made herself. From the Viking Answer Lady’s webpage (which is just a wonderful thing in many ways)…
In which it turns out that Freyja added a few bonus warning dreams of her own to the package. Not that it helped. For earlier parts check the Loki or Wildfire tags. Chapter Four. Priests and Peaceweavers. Raegn cursed. Aethelbald’s sword had nicked her arm and the slow blood trickled down to her fingertips. She…
Following Erastes’ My list of 15 Children’s Books everyone should read, itself inspired by 15 Kid’s Books you need to read I thought I’d do my own. Start with the usual suspects 🙂 1. The Hobbit 2. The Lord of the Rings (not technically a children’s book, but best read first in your teens.) 3….
