I’m off on holiday tomorrow. We’re going to go somewhere just outside St. Malo for a week. This will give me ample opportunity to look around St. Malo, where a couple of chapters of Shining in the Sun take place. I got my description of the place from guidebooks and Google street view, so I’m…
OK so you probably have to be born in the USA to understand the legal shilly-shallying about Prop 8 and gay marriage in California, and what, if anything, it implies for the rest of the country. First marriage was OK, then it wasn’t, now it is again but not until next week, and the anti-marriage…
Oh no! I suffer from all of these! Fortunately (or not) I know I’m not alone. In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I’m going to quote it whole: Imprecision: When writers just miss the target ground with their word using they on occasion elicit…
Spent today taking my youngest to the dentist. This is pretty much the story of the holidays – non stop ferrying one or the other of them about. Though I can’t be hard on her for needing to go to the dentist, poor child! In writerly news, I have just passed the 100,000 word mark…
and I may have a new fandom 🙂 What an excellent film! I do like a film where I come away from it with a head that feels as if it’s been stuffed full of new and interesting things to think about. I’m not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, and this hasn’t really changed that. …
Cassie at Joyfully Reviewed has done a lovely review of Shining in the Sun. She says I wasn’t sure how I would feel about Shining in the Sun, given that Alex Beecroft is primarily a historical writer. After reading it, I can only say I hope Ms. Beecroft decides to write another contemporary soon, because…
(though rather expensive liquid history at that.) Naval lovers with more money than sense can now buy a bottle of authentic Navy rum, from the Royal Navy’s last remaining stocks, held in stone flagons in HM bonded warehouses since “Black Tot Day” in 1970, when the tradition of the daily rum ration for Royal Navy…
I’m happy to say that this week I’m busily doing edits on my dark Fantasy novel, The Witch’s Boy. I should have the edits finished by the end of the week, which is one step closer to the book being released in a new edition by Lethe Press, hopefully before the end of this year…
Charlie Cochrane pointed this out to me, as she just got one of those “if you bought this, you might like that” emails from Amazon today. Amazon apparently thinks that she might like to pre-order Captain’s Surrender (2nd edition) at a special bargain price: Dear Amazon.com Customer, We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or…
and I’m still rolling along! Or at least, I’m celebrating having passed the 90,000 word mark on UtH. Admittedly it’s only 60% done, but things have started rolling a little and developing some momentum, and I’m feeling positive about it again. I’m also getting things clearer in my mind for what needs to be changed…
