I have so many authors whose books I will go out of my way to buy – either buying them in from the States or stalk bookshop assistants to order them in for me, because I love them so much. I don’t care how long it takes them to write that next book, I’m happy to [...]
Apologies for the silence on here. Been doing a lot of reading of some amazing books, going off to the movies, thanks to the guys from GeekSyndicate and tweaking of Djinn and refreshing the emails praying to hear the good news from an agent. But I have also been doing some more writing. And looking at [...]
Some research got done this past week into the new WIP. The word count stands at 16.20% complete at present or, like this: 10527 / 65000 It’s not too bad – but hopefully this coming week may see me work on it some more. Oh, as to what I’ve been researching? Accessories, darling. Things like [...]
Over at My Favourite Books we’ve come up with this “we read all books, no discrimination” and it’s been somewhat true for me, more so recently. I am happy to tuck into well-written non-fiction, I love most subjects and have reviewed cookbooks, history, a couple of reference books and a swathe of other things, except [...]
I must apologise for the previous post which I’ve taken off in order to overhaul as a lot of the links didn’t work. Damn that RSS feed not linking through to the full articles! However, I thought I’d share a bit of happy news with you. The New Shiny Project ™ GT stands at: 6175 [...]
So my resolution to not tinker with anything new came to nothing. I called up Scrivener on the iMac last night and I created a few folders and copied across research and images… I sat down and chatted to Mark about what to write next. He’s all for the YA katana-girl and [...]
…is that I’ve now submitted two queries. I have sent CURSE OF THE DJINN off into the wide world am will wait a reasonable amount of time – 8pm tonight, at least – to send out more if I’ve not had any offers of acceptance/representation. No, I’m kidding, actually. I know better than that. I’ll [...]
In a few days time I will be giving myself permission to start working on something brand new. For real. No games. To the finish. Everything else I’ve been working on since finishing Djinn last year was good fun and some of these projects have managed to really get under my skin but none of them [...]
That’s all. Nothing to see here. *whistles* (well, okay, maybe just a tiny bit of news…the end is nearing for Djinn…or is that the beginning?)
Non-writerly and un-readerly friends recently bemoaned the fact that neither Mark nor I have been around to hang out with them as much as we’ve done in the past. To be honest, I really didn’t notice / realise this! Oh, I lie. I maybe did, vaguely, at the back of my mind. Last year we were [...]
