Thanks to Bruin Fisher, author of the wonderful “Work Experience” for pointing out to me that attitudedirect.com are featuring Shining in the Sun. Their number one bestseller, apparently! How very cool! http://attitudedirect.com/SHINING-IN-THE-SUN.html This reminds me that I haven’t yet mentioned this lovely review by Alan Chin, author of the beautiful and haunting The Lonely War,…
I’m currently at the stage of thinking up a new novel length plot, and for the first time I’m trying it using plot cards. I reckon that I comfortably write 1000 words a day, so one card is going to represent the amount of stuff I can write in one day. This means I need…
Thank you so much to everyone who sent me birthday wishes yesterday. I’ve never felt so loved in my life! I was positively overwhelmed. My sister invited me round for lunch and bought me perfume, and my husband brought home Thai food for dinner and gave me a necklace that looks like a stylish pendant…
Chapter Two. The sun came up on Sessrumnir, and when the servants had thrown open the glistening doors it glanced through all the rooms and glittered in Freyja’s mirror. She sat before her glass admiring her beautiful face, rouging her lips with a paste of blood and honey. The yellow light shocked glints of red…
So, yesterday I hit my target weight on my diet, which means that I now have to figure out how to eat in order to neither lose nor gain any weight. That will be interesting. I may stay on the diet but start exercising, in an attempt to replace fat with (heavier) muscle. In a…
What a great year it’s been so far for films I wanted to see! I can’t remember another year like it. But perhaps I’m getting jaded as a result, because I went into X-Men: First Class with high hopes and found it very … meh. Part of this may be that I’m still obsessing over…
Cheyenne Publications owner Mark Probst has launched a great new project, begun after the rash of gay youth suicides a few months back. The problem may not be in the headlines at the moment, but it’s no less serious. The Trevor Project, founded in memory of one such young man, is dedicated to preventing glbt…
Comprising the rest of Chapter One Previously – Sceldwulf, having lived his three score years and ten, decided to stir up trouble with a story of the old gods, and then commit suicide. Now that everyone is feeling properly on edge, there comes a knocking at the door…
and free to anyone who wants it 🙂 Blurb Enjoy this entertaining collection of flash fiction stories, each one a short but sweet expression of what it means to be queer in Britain, past and present. All these stories reflect the iconic sights and national character of the British Isles: a taste of our idiosyncrasies…
So, I’m at the stage with Under the Hill in which I should imminently be getting a contract to sign – at which point I will officially announce as much as I know about who the publishers are and when it’s likely to appear. But in the mean time my editor and I have decided…
