Blog neglect, and Distant Worlds

I’ve been neglecting my blog. I’m sorry: I just didn’t have a lot to say beyond ‘Still writing’ or ‘Not writing, due to my head being full of cold’ or whatever. I’ve been to Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy in London, which was awesome, particularly the pipe organ during ‘Dancing Mad’, and Nobuo Uematsu […]

Requite, In Pie Charts

This is a comparison between what the heroine of my previous two books did with her time, and what the heroine of my present book does with hers. And one more: All pie charts from sporkforge.com.

European adventure for the books, and musings on Mills and Boon

So, slightly to my surprise, my books are now available in paperback from Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon France and Amazon Spain, and on the Kindle from amazon.fr. In other news, I’ve been enjoying reading this year’s round of Mills and Boon New Voices. I started reading Mills and Boons when I’d just finished my […]

Bizarre spam comments I have had lately

Viagra dire event warning tag Reminder that this is not the Existential Flame War. You may be entirely perfect. That’s nice. I still use too many semi-colons, though. Various spam promoting French rappers Seriously, give it up. I’m not going to promote French rappers. My knowledge of French popular culture stops at Francis Cabrel. And […]

Random assortment

I like websites that log you in and keep you logged in. I get mildly annoyed about websites that expect you to log in every day, but I realise they’re doing it for security reasons. But websites that keep you logged in for a long but unspecified length of time and then randomly log you […]

Action scenes

Today I am continuing to write an action scene in which my characters fight something not a million miles from a Final Fantasy Malboro. This would all be so much easier if I’d never read any tentacle porn fanfic.

Postmodern Grandkid of I Get Searches

Mostly, people get to my blog by searching on ‘ankaret wells’ or the name of one of the books. But sometimes Google sends people my way for other reasons. wil wheaton pseudonym I am not Wil Wheaton writing under a pseudonym. Though if I was, the books I wrote would probably be very entertaining. what […]

How To Be A Writer

This is an amazing post by M. Molly Backes about how to be a writer. The condensed version is: you write. But read the full version anyway, because it’s worth it. I have to say how grateful I am that my own parents practiced benign neglect when confronted with a child who was interested in […]

Stumbling Through Paradise

Well over a decade ago (actually, it might be coming up on a decade and a half) a friend read the Unpublishable Novel About Roleplayers and said ‘You write grand sweeping landscapes and then have characters stumbling about in front of them saying ‘um’ and ‘bugger”. I am glad to report that Heavy Ice is […]

Two Chapter Elevens

So, at present I have two chapter elevens, an idea persistently poking me in the back of the head for the next Requite book (and I wasn’t even planning to write a next Requite book, I was planning to do something else) and everyone I know who writes normal-sized books has finished one, or possibly […]