Huzzah, and other, more period-appropriate, exclamations. The first draft of The Pilgrims’ Tale is complete at 87,890 words. It opens with a scene a little bit like this: only without the anachronisms and arrows, and carries on being less about war and more about music and gender-role confusion than is usual with me. It’s probably…
Wow, the Under the Hill books have just had their first review and they’re not even out yet. What’s even more exciting is that it’s a good one, and it’s by Library Journal Reviews, so I guess I can keep my fingers crossed for the books to be available in a few libraries once they’re…
This story has a remarkable story of disasters, obstacles overcome and dogged persistence all of its own. It’s possible that some of you may remember the first time I announced the sale of what was then a long short story called 90% Proof to Freya’s Bower. I can’t now remember how many years ago that…
Gosh, my titles are imaginative, aren’t they? But I got the final version of my cover art for Under the Hill: Dogfighters last night and had logged on to post it for people to see, when I came across the Hobbit trailer. That made two things to squee about instead of just one, so here…
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…
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…
Every year, I hope to do Nanowrimo. This year I planned to do it. I had even plotted out an 80k long book and written the first 30k in the hopes of finishing off the next 50k during Nano. I don’t know why I did this, because every year the edits on my existing books…
Wow! A first review of “By Honor Betrayed” and it’s not even out yet! I appear to have cranked the sense of danger up a bit too high for this reviewer, but it’s ok because she enjoyed it enough to come back for more anyway This was my first Alex Beecroft read and I’m sure…
After what seems an extended period of radio silence, I’m visible again! I had the good fortune to be invited to guest blog on Josephine Myles’ blog. Jo, whose gorgeous narrowboat story “Barging In” (why can’t I do good titles like that?) came out recently and is already hauling in those 5 star reviews, has…
