This weekend saw me in two layers of thermals and a big black coat playing as one of Coton Morris Men’s musicians, and can I just say that (a) the inventor of handwarmers is hereby promoted by me to the status of a minor god, and (b) nobody told me that whistle players need to…
of an angered morris musician at Mill Road Winter Fair. With one blast from the melodion, Jane of Coton Morris Men knocks down two of the dancers who’d had the audacity to complain about her festive scarf.
And my characters stare back. Sometimes when I’m starting a project with all new characters and setting, and I don’t know much about either, I will sit down and ask my heroes to talk to me. Usually they say something along the lines of “Sod off! Don’t be nosy.” And they look at me as…
starts up today! Every day until Christmas, at about 2pm, there will be a new post about something festive, and an opportunity to win either a free book or something else just as exciting. My post isn’t up until the 23rd, but I’m going to be clicking on it every day because there’s something interesting…
As November draws to a close, and all over the internet come the cries of NaNoWriMo participants reaching their 50K goal for the month, I have achieved my In2.5NoEdMo. My individual month of editing two and a half books – if a novella counts as a half book – turned out to be almost as…
I should probably be ashamed, shouldn’t I? Given that I met JL Merrow at the UK Meet in 2010 and have been following her blog ever since (not to mention working on the BritFlash and “Tea and Crumpet” anthologies with her) I should probably be ashamed that I’ve only just got around to reading one…
Yay! This is wonderful 🙂 By Honor Betrayed is a SiN five star read! I can’t say how delighted I am. After such a long time with nothing new out I’d lost any confidence I might have had about whether I could do this writing lark. So getting some lovely reviews gives me a big…
Ooh, what a lovely review this is from the Thrifty Reader blog: http://thriftyreader.blogspot.com/2011/11/e-book-review-by-honor-betrayed-by-alex.html “By Honor Betrayed was delicious. That’s the only way to put it. The desire between Tom and Conrad can almost be felt. Everyday touches between master and servant take on a whole new meaning. This was heady stuff.” “Delicious” makes me hurt…
When I get ill, I have a tendency towards melodrama. The truth is that I have a tendency towards melodrama at all times, but when I’m ill it manifests itself in the purest form – in weeping and loud declarations that I can’t bear it any more and I want to die. My life is…
Still in the grip of family wide illness (my daughter has it today) it’s nice to have some good news, such as a new book being out 🙂 Today is the release day for By Honor Betrayed, and in Googling to find out where it was being sold I came across a new review of…
