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…
Secrets – novel – first draft finished, editing: Done 28th April – added new scene of 1,321 words, which doesn’t show up as progress, but it is! Done 29th April – added mostly complete new scene of 1,069 words – will try to finish the scene tonight. Done 30th April – finished writing scene between…
Found some progress meters thanks to Writertopia Secrets – novel – first draft finished, first pass of self-editing almost complete: Away with the Faeries – short – written: needs me to sit down and write a quick plan, as it wants to grow longer than it should. Boys of Summer – novel – written: also…
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 blogged in a serious sort of way over on The Macaronis, on the topic of research for writing historical fiction. The whys, whens and hows of research, along with a list of the wheres 🙂 So if you’re thinking your next/first book might be a historical, or if you’re just interested in what goes…
*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…
Just a quick review of ‘Man Oh Man: Writing m/m fiction for kinks and cash’ by Josh Lanyon Though ‘review’ might be putting it too strongly – ‘squee’ might be closer 🙂 If you go back through my posts on this LJ you’re bound to come across one where I gushed mightily about how wonderful…
Eeeee! I have a fantastic new review for ‘Captain’s Surrender’, and it’s from Ruth Sims, author of ‘The Phoenix’, which is one of my favorite m/m books. It’s extra specially wonderful to get a review from someone whose own writing I admire so much; I get to be honored as well as squeeful! 🙂 the…
