I hate blurb writing! I’ve got a theme which can be summarized in about a sentence ‘this book is about true love conquering all. Also it’s about how banning homosexuality is bad for society.’ And I’ve got a plot that stretches over a couple of pages of synopsis. But finding something to say in the…
Rainbow Reviews is doing what looks like a fun promo-come-book-giveaway in June, called the Rainbow Reviews Scavenger Hunt if you’re a big fan of m/m books and fancy an attempt to get a whole load of them for free, you can check out how to play using the link above. I’m giving away a copy…
Yesterday was a great day! I found out that The Witch’s Boy had received a fabulous five star review from Teresa at Rainbow reviews 🙂 Hee! This is my poor red headed stepchild of a book, so I love the fact that, when I can persuade people to read it, they seem to enjoy it!…
I had an interesting Bank Holiday weekend 🙂 Spent Saturday being a Saxon and discovered that I honestly have lost any interest I had in the period. However, wandering around the multi-period show, we found an outfit called NFOE (New France and Old England). They reenact mid 18th Century America, when it was still a…
Oh, squee! Val Kovalin has reviewed my short story ‘Insubordination’ on her wonderful review site ‘Obsidian Bookshelf’. It’s always a total delight when you read a review from someone who really gets under the skin of what you were trying to do with a book or story, and Val really has the gift for that. …
Writing: Continue edit of ‘Secrets’. Progress so far = not bad, but I think I need to set myself a target of getting the second draft/rewrite complete by the start of August. Continue writing the fairy story And it needs a name! Target word count = 10,000, so it should take about 4 weeks. Blog…
I was reading a thread on Making Light this morning which was, as usual, intimidatingly erudite and much too clever for me, in which people were translating poems into LOL! and Txt! speak. But I was too embarrassed to try it myself among so many works of genius. (Also I’d gone to make a…
*g* It’s been a productive day, for a change. Three chapters of editing on ‘Secrets’. 500 words on a new short story, which have enabled me to discover that I should have started it somewhere else – this is progress for me! And a blog post for The Macaronis Is there anyone out there who…
After what’s seemed like an interminable slump, I have news again, and lo! it is good 🙂 The Witch’s Boy is finally up on Amazon.com HERE currently with no blurb and no cover picture, but I’m pretty sure that will come once they get their act together. It’s also had a lovely review from reader…
A very Marian evening For the first time in what seems like several centuries, Andrew and I went out in the evening on Saturday, leaving the kids at home with a babysitter. We went to Ely Cathedral, where the Mediaeval Baebes were doing a concert. The Mediaeval Baebes are sort of the Spice Girls of…
