More on the Tzenni socks

I’ve just heard that the Tzenni sock pattern will be published on the pennies per hour of pleasure knitting fundraiser site tomorrow. I am very excited about this – they’re raising money for Médecins Sans Frontières, which is a great cause. Also, when I was thinking about what might happen after the books were published […]

A wretched hive of scum and villainy

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, […]

The Distant Hours

I posted a while back about how much I was looking forward to reading Kate Morton’s The Distant Hours, so I thought that now I’d acquired a copy and read it I should probably review it. 🙂 Short version: this book is beautifully constructed and well written, with a central mystery that keeps its grip […]

Lulu code, also, best tags ever.

Another Lulu money off code! Celebrate Lulu’s birthday – save 20% on any order up to £100, enter HAPPYUK at checkout. (You can also get 25% off £500 or more with code BIRTHDAYUK, but I somehow doubt any of you are planning on spending that much at Lulu) Also, today I found a blog collating […]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I bring you a special Valentine message from Requite.

Weird Next-Door Neighbour Of I Get Searches

WordPress helpfully tells me what people have searched on to find my site, and sometimes I can’t help but respond. I dislike clipart I’m sorry to hear that. I find it quite useful. how is science fiction different from adventure novels? That is a really good question. If you’re talking about something published recently, then […]

Heavy Weather

Aaaaand I’m still having trouble with the construction of Heavy Ice. Honestly, considering the heavy weather I’ve made of it so far, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I came from some kind of universe where novels had stalled out after Tristram Shandy and everyone took to reading epic poems instead, and now here I […]

And today we have management of infodumps

I am fiddling about with the most recent chapter of Heavy Ice, in which the characters finally have five minutes where they’re both conscious at the same time and no one’s trying to kill them, and are therefore sitting down and asking each other awkward questions. It’s not going well, because there are a lot […]

Cool

Quite a lot of self-published books are, y’know, cool. They’re set in post-apocalyptic Singapore, or their selling point is ‘Steampunk is sexually transmitted!’ [1] or they have their finger on the blue throb of the zeitgeist’s pulse in some other way. I admire that. The thing is, mine aren’t. The best I can really do […]

Stepdaughter Of I Get Searches

WordPress helpfully tells me what people have searched on to find my site, and sometimes I can’t help but respond: find books to sell on amazon That sounds like one of those careers you see advertisements for in the back of old-fashioned comics, like ‘Make a good living selling scrap metal!’ and ‘Become a commercial […]