I’ve always wanted a tattoo – and when I say ‘always’ I mean “since long before it became acceptable for women to have tattoos.” It’s that history thing again. Being English, with a mother from Yorkshire and a father from the Welsh borders, it’s highly unlikely that I don’t have a mix of Saxon, Viking…
Much to my surprise, about a month ago the editor of Out magazine contacted me to say “how do you fancy doing an interview? We’d send someone over to talk to you. And can you find us some other female authors of m/m fiction who could come along too?” After being duly gobsmacked and panicking…
And as a result I have children at home for the summer holidays and no time for writing. I had meant to fill this time with research on the early Anglo-Norman period in Britain, for my planned Herewardish m/m historical novel, Dragon of the Fen. But I find myself researching the history of Morris Dancing…
It’s nice to see people’s sales ranks returning even in far flung regions of Amazon such as Amazon.co.uk. It meant that I could turn to worrying about pleasanter things like how well False Colors was doing. Today has even had a lot of squee in it, after the large doses of OMG!WTF of the weekend. …
I always wonder which to start with, but it would be churlish not to start with the good news in this case. Late last night I got a gorgeous, intelligent, insightful and above all positive A grade review for False Colors from Dr. Sarah F of Dear Author: http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/09/review-false-colors-by-alex-beecroft/ “Rarely, oh so rarely, I’ll read…
I know Amazon ratings don’t mean a lot, but it did give me a thrill this morning to find False Colors in the top 100 of Historical books on Amazon. Actually making a slight impact outside the ‘gay fiction’ lists. LOL! Just for the moment, False Colors by me is above its namesake, False Colours…
she shall bite things and jingle wherever she goes 🙂 Another miscellaneous post, as lots of things are happening at once. Probably the biggest thing is that finally, after at least six months if not a year of dentistry, the tooth has landed! On Tuesday I went to the dentist for the final time. …
Thank you to everyone who chipped in with suggestions as to how to turn the flappy bits into a workable garment. It took me almost the whole day, but I have got there 🙂 This evening I sew the buttons on and make button holes for the fly (and lace the back), and then tomorrow…
I decided to put my icon making experience to work and see how I was at producing book covers. I’m hoping to have ‘The Boys of Summer’ finished by Christmas, so I thought there would be no harm done if I made a mockup of a cover for it which I could have at hand,…
Wages of Sin – novella – written So that’s the first chapter done. I’m planning to have about 11 chapters in total, each somewhere around 2500 to 3000 words long. In this one I have introduced the hero, knocked him down with a carriage, half suffocated him and killed his father. Next time I plan…