I’ve never been so well dressed since I started getting all my clothes second hand. Never in my life would I have dreamed of spending the amount of money it would have cost me to buy a pair of Doc Martens new. But look what turned up in a Cambridge charity shop as I was…
Today I’m handing over to Shira Glassman who I ‘met’ through Tumblr, where she runs one of the most interesting blogs on there, and helps me to remember how important it is to make sure there are always interesting women in my stories. When you’re writing m/m it’s sometimes easy to forget the girls….
I’m not quite sure what this meme is supposed to achieve, other than to make people feel bad if they somehow fail to live up to the standard of writerly purity expected. But I’m sure the standard to be a ‘professional writer’ should not be something that I achieve effortlessly just by being lazy and…
Hurray! I got a lovely overall B review from Dear Author for The Crimson Outlaw: http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-b-reviews/b-reviews/review-the-crimson-outlaw-by-alex-beecroft/ Except for having m/m, action, and m/m action, this was a real change of pace from the previous Beecroft novellas I’ve read, all of which were Regencies. Impressively, not only is unusual setting beautifully realized, but the entire tone…
To say I’m pleased with this one would be an understatement. Particularly as I know how hard the artist worked to get something that was in-period, when I kept sending the mockups back. “It’s lovely, but they didn’t wear plate armour in those days.” “I love it, but I’m sorry, we can’t have a castle…
Is lucky number 13. Who is… let me go and trawl through the comments to find out… It is Carolyn, who was sensible enough to leave me her email address, so I will also email off list to tell her she’s won 🙂 Congratulations Carolyn!
Here I am, baring my soul on the Saucy Wenches’ Book Club Neither saucy nor wench are words I would normally apply to myself, but I greatly admire Nanny Ogg, who I’m sure was the sauciest of wenches when she was younger, so I was honoured to be allowed to tag along for the day….
Because I’m not very good with either maths or remembering things 😉 Today I am on the Book Reviews and More blog, talking about the musical soundtrack of The Crimson Outlaw – what I found when I went looking for the evidence for what a culture sounds like. http://www.bookreviewsandmorebykathy.com/2013/08/15/3360/ I’m also talking about why this…
And I’m here on The Armchair Reader answering such frequently asked questions as ‘where do you get your ideas?’ and ‘how do you get past writer’s block?’. Thank you so much to The Armchair Reader for having me 🙂 And thanks to the Live Your Life, Buy the Book review site for this lovely review…
I almost forgot to add a link to this. It’s the first day of my blog tour! And today I am on the Cup o’Porn blog here http://cupoporn.net/2013/08/12/mix-it-up-monday-with-alex-beecroft/ talking about The Crimson Outlaw – where I got the idea, why it sounds more like a fairy tale than a historical – but also talking about…
