Most likely reason for me having failed to mention that there was a large and impressive atrium inside the Aeyorn gatehouse in The Maker’s Mask, but describing it in detail in Heavy Ice? a) Last time we were there we were in Latinus’ viewpoint, and Latinus takes large and impressive atriums for granted in much […]

I’m back from spending a few days at Center Parcs, where I managed to get a bit of Heavy Ice written on my husband’s laptop. I won’t quite say that I was gladder to see my ergonomic keyboard when I got in than I was to see the cats, but it was a close-run thing. […]

I have just realised while reading Darths and Droids that one of my characters is an attractive but somewhat naive senator, who gets into difficulties on a desert planet while politics at home are coming to a boil and people with strange tech-meets-magic powers are fighting it out in the background. If this keeps up, […]

I bring you a special Valentine message from Requite.

Sadie has designed socks inspired by Tzenni, and blogged about it here! They have roses and staircases on, and they are awesome. Also, I just said to my D&D players ‘My books inspired someone to knit socks!’ and they looked back at me with expressions of ‘Your books make people’s feet cold?’ (Actually, if my […]

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 […]

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 […]