Can anyone recommend any great books featuring elves which I really ought to read in order to catch up with what has been done by novelists writing about the realm of Faerie recently? I’m trying to put together a society for the elves in Under the Hill, and it occurs to me that – since…
I have finally finished my pocket hoops, the first step towards making myself slightly posher 18th Century clothes. They look like small covered wagons and involved about the same amount of engineering, since each one is boned with three lengths of steel. They also have padded channels at the top to make the tops rigid. …
I found out about Katie Babs/KB, who is doing something about the recent rash of teen suicides due to bullying and cyberbullying. She’s made a post about them and has pledged that for every comment she gets, up to five hundred, she’ll donate a dollar to an organization dedicated to helping kids. 500 comments =…
A couple of people have now sent me a copy of what was written in Rolling Stone magazine and I feel I owe the reporter an apology. It turned out not to be an article so much as just a mention, and it went like this: Hot Broken Paperbacks M/M Romances Around 2007, amateur online…
Has anyone seen Rolling Stone magazine this month? They interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. I told them in no uncertain terms that I didn’t write porn, that (from what I could tell from my fan mail) more than half of my readers were gay men, that I didn’t write for straight women only…
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I’ve blogged over on the Samhain blog today on the subject of research for historical novels and why it’s really not as horrible as it sounds: http://samhainpublishing.com/blog/2010/09/30/research-a-perk-of-the-job I think I should perhaps do a follow-on blog about “fascinating people I’d never heard of (but really should have.)” 🙂 The main drawback of research, as far…
One of the blogs I follow regularly is Shrinking Violet Promotions (subtitle – Marketing for Introverts,) who are always interesting and provide a much welcome contrast to the rather extrovert advice I get elsewhere. Today for some readon the RSS feed sent me two of their posts instead of one, and I thought I’d pass…
Massive apologies to anyone who was hoping to get this book for Halloween last year, but the good news is that it’s out in perfect time to get it for Halloween this year 🙂 The Mysterious Anthology Containing: Shadows in Time by Laura Baumbach: Trying to avoid ruin and disgrace, young naive Neal Clifton, wealthy…
