Eeee! I have cover art for Too Many Fairy Princes! Or at least, I have seen a mock up of what the cover art will be like when it has finally been made. I didn’t really have a clear idea of what I wanted to see on this cover. Maybe a view of London with…
Elin Gregory kindly invited me to come and talk to her on The Armchair Reader about the dilemma faced by writers of LGBT fiction which is not erotica. It is a rant, but it is a polite one, I hope 🙂 http://coleriann.com/2013/04/08/alex-beecroft-elin-gregory-discuss-erotica-vs-romance-mismarketing/ Some great comments there already. Thank you!
Everyone has to do research. Even writers of contemporaries will occasionally have to look up police procedure, or how much a luxury yacht costs or what is the price of a room in the Waldorf, or what would really happen if you turned up in A&E with gunshot wounds etc etc. Writers of historicals know…
If you knew me in real life, you’d know that I was the one who sat in the corner of every meeting, listening and not saying anything. On rare occasions I might burst out with some wildly odd opinion on which I held forth for half an hour before realizing that everybody’s eyes had glazed…
His Heart’s Obsession was voted Best GBLT historical romance at the Romance Reviews! Woohoo! I get a little banner and everything: Thank you to everyone who voted for it. Virtual champagne and roses all around 😀
The Glass Floor is done. It is done, my precious 🙂 Or at least, it is done enough so that it’s ready to be given out to a small number of fantasy fans who are willing to read it and tell me what works for them, and more importantly, what doesn’t work and why not….
I must admit I’ve never taken the UK citizenship test myself and suspect I would not pass it. (I think it’s a silly idea. Why do we all need to know the same things?) But I nevertheless passed this one with flying colours. See how you would do 🙂 http://realcitizenshiptest.co.uk/quiz.php?n=1
Miku twirling by ~SkullRider123 on deviantART ~*~*~*~ I saw this yesterday, and desperately wanted to run around telling my friends and family about it. But then I remembered that my friends and family would not see why it was such a big deal. (Probably because it really isn’t a big deal to anyone except me.)…
Since I’m working so hard at the writing that it’s beginning to feel like a real job – and it’s a job that involves being at the keyboard for the majority of the day – I’ve started ending the day by disengaging from the computer altogether and going to sit on the sofa. But I…
So, I have done my tax return, which was not a particularly interesting thing to do. But getting my royalties spreadsheet all up to date was very interesting, since it shows that my gut feeling of how I was doing is actually not an accurate reflection of reality at all. When you’re a new author,…
