This post is a quick big-up to two of my very talented friends, Mirien and Emma Collingwood. Mirien is an amazing silversmith, and is in the process of setting up her own jewellery making business, Sidhe Silver. If you love all things elvish, historical, Celtic, mystic, with a flavour of ancient stones rising out of…
This morning I am still fulfilling my ambition to post something every Monday, but I’m just not doing it here. Instead, I’m being all bolshy on Jessewave’s blog, with the paradoxical advice to writers not to be too swayed by other people’s advice: Rebellious Thoughts on the New Year.
Google Alerts are not an unmixed blessing, because they make you aware of how much you are being pirated. On the other hand, it’s wonderful to stumble across a review that you had no idea was there. This one is from the Isn’t It Romance blog: you know what I really really loved? The way…
Ooh, Google Alerts has just alerted me to this wonderful review of False Colors from John Kompa at Flying Off the Shelves: Her main characters, John Cavendish and Alfie Donwell, are more alive, more human than most people I know. She breathed life into these characters and they took what they got, ran away together…
I’ve always wanted a tattoo – and when I say ‘always’ I mean “since long before it became acceptable for women to have tattoos.” It’s that history thing again. Being English, with a mother from Yorkshire and a father from the Welsh borders, it’s highly unlikely that I don’t have a mix of Saxon, Viking…
I have finished the first draft of Forced today. Hurrah! It came in at 20,367 words out of an estimated length of 20,000, which I feel quite smug about. (Let’s not mention the fact that I already know it will need an entire new opening scene. Possibly I can reduce Conroy’s interminable dithering to make…
It is Plough Monday today, the traditional time when ploughboys and other agricultural types were expected to go back to work after Christmas. Naturally this couldn’t happen without a ritual attached (a ritual that took all day and therefore meant one more day of not working 😉 ) Here in the Fens the tradition was…
I’m Posting every week in 2011. I’ve decided I ought to get myself organized in order to do more, so I’m signing up for this WordPress post-a-week thing, and will try to post something every Monday. I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. (Can you tell that…
(The profit being that you end up better read than you were when you started.) One of the good things about limited internet over the holidays was that this gave me oodles of time to read. I re-read The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian and fell in love with his style and storytelling all…
I just got back from up North, and am absolutely shattered, but couldn’t leave today without mentioning the lovely review of Shining in the Sun which Elisa Rolle posted on her site today. She says Of course Alec is naïve, of course he knows that if not for his money he would have not met…
