Listen to this. Is this not the most gorgeous thing you’ve ever heard in your life? It’s certainly one of them for me, and I don’t normally like male voice choirs. How do I convey the same atmosphere in writing? It’s as bad as trying to describe what apple tastes like. Sometimes words are a…
“The game is to find the word “look” in your current work in progress, and post an excerpt from that section of the manuscript.” – Elin’s post is here This is, as per usual, from The Glass Floor. Now 86,000 words long and almost exactly half way through. Why do I write such long books?…
Woohoo! Coolness 🙂 I have a new cover for Blessed Isle, and Riptide already have a coming soon page for it. And we have a blurb. It’s so efficient! And I really, really love this cover. Obviously you can rarely go wrong with a tall ship, but look, they have uniforms and period shirts and…
So, this was on my friends’ list this morning: Uganda is to introduce a law which will make homosexuality a capital offence by the end of the year despite international criticism. . http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/uganda-officially-pass-‘kill-gays’-bill121112 Speaker Rebecca Kadaga said that this was a ‘Christmas gift’ to the populace, the majority of who, it seems welcome the passing…
Six Sentence Sunday; I am doing it wrong. I ought to be linking back to the website and list here, but I have failed to be organized enough to get myself included on it. So I’m just going to post it for myself and own my own fail 😉 This is from The Glass Floor,…
Glad to hear that there’s good news from America both in virtue of elections and another couple of states allowing gay people to get married. American politics is not really my business, but with American publishers I feel I have a stake even if I don’t have a say in what goes on. The purple…
Just here http://www.samhainpublishing.com/2012/11/biting-off-more-than-i-can-chew/ And wondering why the first week of NaNoWriMo has to coincide with half term, so I will start out at 500 words a day if I’m lucky. Why, people? Why are there so many damned holidays during which I’m all but forced to stop work? No, stop that, Alex. No more resenting…
Well, it really is. Here I am, reading up on Romanian folk music, after having been informed that it wasn’t at all the same thing as the muzica lautareasca I posted about earlier – shame on me for propagating bad information – when I come across this: and it turns out that here is another…
I’ve had Ely Apple Day on my mind for a week. I blogged about it last week, full of enthusiasm with the memory of good dancing and good music on a day when it didn’t rain, even though it looked like it wanted to. I’d been looking forward to seeing the photos, but when we…
Ow, ow. What possessed me to think I could research 18th Century Romania and the Ottoman Empire at the same time? A hopeless naivety towards the available source material, I suspect. There’s too much on Istanbul and not enough on Bucharest, and I’m never going to get a handle on just enough of it to…
