I’ve spent the last week making new covers for most of my Riptide books, and now I want to show them off 🙂 The Trowchester Series now looks like this: Blessed Isle now looks like this: Which I’m particularly excited about because Garnet regards the whole story as a message in a bottle cast out…
Uh… I thought I posted this on Monday, and now I find it in my drafts. Well, better late than never: ~ So, you’ve probably all heard about this already, because I waited for a week while I got my thoughts in order and had my rights returned to say anything publically about what’s been…
In the final exciting installment of the saga, I have finished the banyan, except for the small detail of adding fasteners. I ended yesterday with the inside assembled and the outside assembled too, but both pieces still separate. So today I laid them front side to front side and sewed them together along the inner…
Not much progress was made yesterday, as both my children were visiting. So no post yesterday. I still managed to sew the silk outer layer together, though. I’d never sewn silk before and wasn’t prepared for it to be so inclined to fray. My goodness! I double sewed it, but I think I’m going to…
I mentioned on Twitter that I was going to make myself a banyan (18th Century gentleman’s house coat) to wear in the writing shed and around the house when the heating is not on and the depths of winter are very deep indeed. I found this pattern online http://thebuzzatthehive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-english-bedgown.html and decided it looked easy enough…
After an extraordinarily long time, there is finally another Age of Sail novel from me! The trouble was that after writing a naval voyage to the Arctic (in False Colors,) and another to Australia (in Blessed Isle,) I’d got to the point where I felt there was nothing fresh left to do. I was wrong…
Oh yes. This was a much better film than The Force Awakens. It managed to retain themes from the OT while never quite going in a way you expected. I’m not going to give any spoilers (except maybe in a very vague way) but this was a much more satisfying film altogether. Although I enjoyed…
Get swept away to times long past. Thirteen authors share their love of history through fiction. Follow the website links after my post to read the authors’ articles about their books and then go pick up a great read for half-price or less from December 12 – 24! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~…
In which the Bible gives pretty clear and unequivocal advice to Christians about what to do with poor people, the sick, immigrants and criminals. This was our Bible reading in church today and I repeat it here because I think there are some Christians and some people in power who could stand to hear it…
I’m not a DC fan, but I’m not not a DC fan, if you see what I mean. I’ve watched both Superman and Batman films before, though not recently – they had begun to be a little too po-faced for me. But I enjoyed Wonder Woman a lot, so I thought I’d go and see…
