I hope not all authors are like this, but I have the sneaking suspicion that it’s a tendency at least I share: On Saturday it was the Cambridge day of dance. The Riot had been invited but we couldn’t field enough members to make a side, so I went in support of my husband’s side,…
1st part available here: http://alexbeecroft.com/2011/05/since-there-is-no-lokaday/ in which the elderly Sceldwulf is telling his disapproving kinsfolk about how he once met two gods, when they were being hunted out of England by the new faith. Chapter 1, Part Two – in which Sceldwulf fulfils an old oath.
I will have to post this on a Thursday. Slightly embarrassing though it is, here is an excerpt of the first ever novel I actually finished. I hit on the cunning plan of telling lots of short stories – because I knew I could finish a short story – and then linking them together to…
First of all, I was summoned to the door this morning and handed a great big box I had not been expecting at all. And lo! When I opened it, there were my author’s copies of Shining in the Sun in print: It’s such a great moment when you can hold your book in your…
I’ve noticed a pattern among my friends who are new authors. They almost always start off reviewing books. Even if they don’t write reviews for a review site, they write up what they think about the books they read and post them on Amazon or on Goodreads. There’s a good reason why so many writers…
Treat yourself and help Japan First of all, I was going to post about the wonderful birthday present I got from Mirien, which I absolutely love. I’ve put it on a black thong to wear it because that seems to go better with the feeling of wearing something out of antiquity. I tried to take…
I appear to have completely failed to tell anyone about this guest blog that I did on Julia Knight’s blog. How to stay sane with social media so I thought I would link it now. I do, in fact, try to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Livejournal and my list of blogs I read in…
You know how sometimes your characters decide to do something you had not foreseen and certainly hadn’t planned for? You sit there being gobsmacked at further evidence that you are not as in control of their lives as you thought, and thinking ‘so this is why people believe in the muses’. Boys of Summer is…
In the course of writing a certain scene I was wondering to myself ‘I wonder how I can describe John’s smell’. I wanted something that combined cream, salt and citrus (from his lemon and bergamot cologne), and after a bit of Googling I came up with yet another reason that the 18th Century was indeed…
I got this idea from – much more interesting than just a bit of blathering on and a wordcount. Though, by now it’s ‘quote of yesterday’ 🙂 “Most of my gentlemen would prefer to spend their time on other sports,” said Mrs Deane, and laughed aloud at the expression on his face. Letting go of…
