I have made the executive decision that since I already had a vaguely planned-out future history for how we get from here to Requite (yes, it is all in my head, I contain multitudes) it could just as well do for the time-travel thing (provisionally entitled ‘Anna Chronistic and the Scarab of Destiny’) which I […]
Read More Days of future multipliedI’ve sold slightly more .epubs and slightly fewer .mobis since Kindle Unlimited came in. Given the numbers involved I suspect this is just noise, but it’ll be interesting to see whether the trend continues.
Read More Noise“Spring-Heeled Jack is not your spirit animal.”
Read More Today’s context-free snippet from the WIPToday’s comparison that a character came up with with no mediation from me: “It smells like a re-enactor’s attic.”
Read More SnippetI am back from the wonderful Weekend At The Asylum – thank you very much to the wonderful organisers of the Victorian Steampunk Society for providing us all with such a splendid time. Lincoln is a lovely city and all the steampunks and interested locals were very friendly. An awesome mechanical birdcage from the Gadget […]
Read More AsylumPlaceholder post so that a picture of me with bits of ironmongery on my head isn’t grinning out from my blog where it’s syndicated on Goodreads. I’d been noticing links coming in to the blog from a Goodreads page for a while, and finally followed the link and discovered that someone had set up an […]
Read More Placeholding CephalopodI do not regret a single damn moment of the time I’ve spent self-publishing. I don’t regret the time I was trying to turn The Maker’s Mask into something that Smashwords’ Meatgrinder software would work with, which involved me nuking the thing back to plain text, sitting there for an afternoon with the paperback open […]
Read More Je Ne Regrette Rien‘Vane blinked at his wife, wondering how the most momentous decision of his life had somehow got mixed up with a discussion of socks.’
Read More Today’s miniquoteHeavy Ice continues to progress. I live in hope that it won’t outgrow the Lulu page limit, and also that the Hawkwood family tree that will need to go in the back will fit on a trade-paperback sized page. Meanwhile, the website continues to get visits from people with surprising search terms. Dear person searching […]
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Ankaret Wells 