Every so often I get frustrated at all the things I can’t do as someone who isn’t able to draw and must content themselves with photoshopping pictures. (Where “photoshopping” in my case = “manipulating using the Gimp”) There are so few available pictures of people in historical clothes out there, that I’m really going to…
I’ve just had an email asking me if I was any relation to Admiral Beecroft. This gave me pause for thought, partly because I don’t know of any Admiral Beecroft. Do you? And partly because I wouldn’t know if he was a relative even if he was. The Beecroft side of the family is my…
When I first had the idea for Under the Hill, back when it was Away with the Faeries, it was going to be a 30K novella. It was going to be a kind of lighthearted paranormal romance with some elves and ghosts and morris dancing. It was going to feature a bloke who worked in…
So I fell off the internet last week, due to having my final proofreading edit of Shining in the Sun with a deadline of one week to finish. Also cover art to make for an upcoming book by Cheyenne Publishing. Also cover art for a new series of Age of Sail novels coming out from…
Through the wonders of Google Alert, I discovered today that somebody has made a Wikipedia page for me! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Beecroft Wow! Fame! I feel as if I’ve really arrived. (And my children are now broadcasting it about the internet in an attempt to one-up their friends. Your mother might be a brain surgeon, but I bet…
Big thanks to Penelope Friday for this article in the T5m Collective magazine: I Do Two – The Charity Anthology Promoting GLBT Right To Marriage in which she interviews Lee Rowan, Kris Jacen and I about the I Do anthologies. On other news, eagle eyed LJ readers may notice that I’ve changed my LJ style. …
This weekend I have done three different text layouts on one book cover, received two different sets of suggestions for improvement, applied both and sent the resulting two different layouts to the publisher for a final decision on which one to go with. I’ve done three different concept mock-ups for another book cover. I’ve read…
Since posting on Thursday that my day was strangely hectic, I’ve decided that there was nothing strange about it. I’ve been taking on stuff here and there, and not doing it. So now I’ve suddenly realized that I have four books to read: two to review, one to read in order to get ideas for…
Today has been strangely hectic, and yet I don’t seem to have achieved anything. Largely because Rose was at home ill again. She spent the morning asleep in bed, so I managed to get my daily 1050 words done (just), but this afternoon I feel absolutely exhausted from running about, but nothing seems to have…
After I posted that “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” contained gratuitous scenes of Daniel Craig in a Greek mini-skirt, the astute Sarah F pointed out that whoever was playing Poseidon, it wasn’t Daniel Craig. This threw me into a three day ferment of “so who was it then? I’m sure I know his face…
