Captain’s Surrender alternative dustcovers
Naked men on the covers of books are maybe not to everyone’s tastes. So I thought I would make a dustcover which could be used to hide them when in public 🙂 This was my first attempt:
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Sweet Success – Two fantastic reviews
A big to my reviewers! I sent the galley proof version of ‘Captain’s Surrender’ out to various websites to see if they fancied reviewing it prior to its release. That way people would have an idea what it was about and whether it was any good before they bought it. Wow! I’m absolutely over the…
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Ice cream and coffee
In the course of writing a certain scene I was wondering to myself ‘I wonder how I can describe John’s smell’. I wanted something that combined cream, salt and citrus (from his lemon and bergamot cologne), and after a bit of Googling I came up with yet another reason that the 18th Century was indeed…
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Book Review: Empire of Ivory
Returning from disaster on the Prussian front, William Laurence and his dragon Temeraire find yet more misfortune awaiting them. A lingering but deadly sickness has struck the dragons of Britain, leaving His Majesty’s Arial Corps barely able to keep up enough of an illusion of strength to prevent an immediate invasion from the air forces…
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I have a banner!
So ok, I made it myself, but I still think it’s really not that bad 🙂 Now to find somewhere to show it off!
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GBLT promo blog
Some time ago a lady called Allison Knight set up a blog for which people were invited to submit interviews with the characters of their books. She preferred to keep this as a space for m/f romance novels only – which is of course her right. But I thought it was a bit of a…
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Quote from WIP
I got this idea from – much more interesting than just a bit of blathering on and a wordcount. Though, by now it’s ‘quote of yesterday’ 🙂 “Most of my gentlemen would prefer to spend their time on other sports,” said Mrs Deane, and laughed aloud at the expression on his face. Letting go of…
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Hereward Wakes – a ghost story
Hereward Wakes This is heavily influenced by all my years spent doing Anglo-Saxon re-enactment. Also by the fact that we’ve just moved to the Fens, which is Hereward’s country. He was a real Robin Hood, who held out against the Norman invasion for years. They tried everything to get rid of him, including bringing in…
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Book Review: The Phoenix
The Phoenix, by Ruth Sims How to begin to summarize this?! It’s a wonderfully complex book, but at its heart is the love between Kit St Denys – the famous actor who was born a gutter rat in London but killed his abusive father and earned a better life – and Nick Stuart, the idealistic…
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Sweet rejection
Oh well, I got my first rejection today since deciding to try and write professionally again. (Witch’s Boy went through 15 of them). This was for the reworked ‘90% Proof’. In the interests of anyone thinking of submitting their own stuff for publication, I thought I’d post it here so you can see what sort…