OK, there may not be such a word as ‘bewonderment’, but I’m sure there should be. In this case I’m using it to mean ‘a state of wondering about’ my works in progress. I’ve finally re-read Elf Princes’ Quest, which seriously still needs a better name. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I laughed aloud in…
In all the excitement of getting our eldest’s A level results and confirming her place at university (and immediately getting to work trying to find her somewhere to live, because the halls of residence were already full) I forgot to mention that I was guesting on Jessica Freely’s website today. http://www.friskbiskit.com/2012/08/guest-post-alex-beecroft.html In which I am…
Jiggety jig. We are safely returned from Cornwall, bringing home with us patchy tans, several pounds of extra weight due to ice-creams and cream-teas, soaked and salty wetsuits, and a sheaf of photos that need sorting through before I post any on here. (Not one of our photos of the Minack Theatre. Ours include the…
with a rant called Holding the Left Hand of Darkness, in which I talk somewhat angrily and incoherently about the subject of gender in this, one of my favourite books ever.
From me, anyway. I have finished editing and polishing The Pilgrims’ Tale. Woohoo! Now I can launch it into the wide world (or at least I can give it to my agent so that she can find a home for it) and start work on the edits of EPQ. I’m having second thoughts on EPQ,…
Guess what I’ve just finished reading? I suspect it’s a classic that I ought to have read earlier. Certainly if I’d read it when it first came out in the nineties many of the things in it that reminded me of stuff I’d seen elsewhere, or mundane every day realities, would have seemed like dazzlingly…
Forgive the slightly cynical title there. I don’t actually know whether it’s still the case that RT will include adverts for m/m romance if paid, but won’t give m/m books the free review a paid advert entitles a m/f romance. I hope that the fact that they’ve published an article about m/m romance indicates they’re…
This is not a review of the new Spiderman film because I don’t have an awful lot to say about it. I went to see it yesterday with the kids, and we all enjoyed it (verging on ‘enjoyed it very much’.) I certainly enjoyed it more on the whole than The Avengers. That is, while…
So, I’m really enjoying writing The Glass Floor, despite the fact that my agent tells me vampires are passe and difficult to find a home for. And despite the fact that I said I would never write vampires, ever ever. I should know better by now than to say things like that. It’s like a…
So, I may fail at posting one item a day on the happiness meme, but I now have some news which works to fill all the other days at once. I’m delighted to announce that I’ve signed on with Louise Fury of the L. Perkins Literary Agency. We had a chat on Monday and agreed…
