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Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?… Susan Cooper (b. 1935) 7 High-Brow, -3 Violent, -11 Experimental and -7 Cynical! Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and Romantic! These concepts are defined below.

In the UK, civil partnerships are currently not legally permissible in religious buildings or buildings used primarily for religious purposes. Some faith groups (for instance, many Quakers) are open to civil partnerships but are unable to perform legal partnership ceremonies under the current restrictions. An on-line petition has been raised on the Downing Street website,…

Your result for The Despot / Small Woodland Creature Test… Joseph Stalin the Woodchuck 62% Brutality, 19% Wackiness, 26% Playfulness, 81% Strength, 38% Kindness, 43% Agility and 71% Intelligence! During the late 1930s, Stalin launched the Great Purge (also known as the “Great Terror”), a campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of…

So, like everyone else, I’ve been reading lots of Nu!Star Trek fic recently.  I’m a Spock fangirl, so I’ve been reading about him: Kirk/Spock, Uhura/Spock, and Kirk/Spock/Uhura (and if there’s good Spock gen out there, please point me at it!  I love gen, but I find it difficult to locate. Anyway, thought I’d pass on…

The book foxes have been foxing my book!  And I’m very happy about it 🙂  In fact I’ve got a lovely review over here Vulpes Libris from Anne Brook, author of the haunting ‘A Dangerous Man’ and ‘Painting from Life’.  I really love her stuff, so when she said she was reading False Colors, I…

A little over 1,700 words today http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=15624&target=20000 Of course, this means that I may end up writing more than 20,000 words to get to the place where I want to get to with this, but that’s nothing new. I can trim afterwards. It’s kind of reassuring to know that after I’ve done this one I…

So I got horribly sunburned on Sunday, dancing out for four hours on a blazing sunshiny day, with a cold sea breeze that meant I didn’t even feel it happen.  My neck and chest are so burned that the skin has swollen and is so painful I can’t go out in the sun at all…

The Macaronis are doing a month long appearance at the Coffee Time Romance boards this month.  Just introducing ourselves today, but tomorrow we’ll be chatting amongst ourselves, and then there’ll be individual author’s days throughout the month. Click on the picture to get to the forum 🙂 And in not at all related news, if…

But that’s about all I can say for it.  I’ve just got home from an all day dance-out in Woodbridge, for the Suffolk Folk Festival Well, when I say all day, I mean we danced from 11-12 in front of one pub, then we walked to another pub and danced from 12-1pm.  Then we had…

Despite being ‘mum’s taxi service’ for my daughters, and therefore having to go into Cambridge (a three quarters of an hour drive there, and then another back) every single day this week, it’s been a surprisingly productive week. I’ve done some cover art, which I’m not yet able to say anything about. I’ve also done…