Writing and Gaming: They’re Different

I write, and I also run games. [1] The writing came first, but only because up until I went to university a combination of geography and lack of social skills meant that I didn’t know anyone else who was interested in RPGs and wanted to do anything more complicated than ‘I hit the orc’ / […]

Question of the day: do they have Christmas on Requite?

I don’t think they do, because those members of the cast who have any religion at all inherited it from a religious fringe group who revered a holy revelator who was born, I think, some time about a thousand years after humanity reached the stars. They must have some kind of winter festival, because it […]

Yet another Lulu money off code

Enter UKWEEK4 at checkout. Valid until Boxing Day. Happy Winter, everyone!

How The Feud Began

Another deleted scene! This one was cut from The Maker’s Mask very late, and I’d actually thought I’d put it back into the book in one form or another, but apparently not, so here it is. Tzenni explains the Feud This bit comes between the first time Tzenni tries to repair the Retort and the […]

Read a deleted scene from The Maker’s Mask

I’ve put up a deleted scene from The Maker’s Mask, in which Ligeia Boccamera negotiates an alliance with Mukhtar Prime. Some bits of this got cut out and used in the conversations between Ligeia and Karely in The Hawkwood War. It got cut for several reasons – it wasn’t really helping move the plot along, […]

New Requite-set short story

This time last year, I was manically writing fanfic for Yuletide: I think part of this was displacement activity because I was sick of sending the Digital Doorstop off and getting it rejected, and part of it was displacement activity because my husband was flying to New Zealand on Boxing Day. This year, I’m doing […]

Britain After Rome

I am reading Robin Fleming’s Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 – 1070 and really enjoying it. Part of this is because it’s full of descriptions of clothing. But most of it is that I am hugely attracted to reading about cobbled-together, makeshift societies, and to the details of trade webs and burial […]

Son of I Get Searches

do you like palatino Yes, I do like Palatino! I very nearly used it for my books. I can’t remember why I didn’t, in the end: I think it was because it looks weird when used for extended sections in italic. what country do school books come from? Well, the only one I have to […]

The New ‘Which Requite Character Are You?’ Quiz

I wrote the first version of this in 2008 when two people besides me had read the books. Now that a few more people know what I’m talking about, I thought I’d dust it off. Which Requite Character Are You? 1) If you were starring in an anime series, who would you be? A: The […]