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“The Duke continued to stare at me as if the Diana of Ephesus had just stepped out of a mummy-case and bared her breasts at him.”
Read More Quote from today’s wordcount“The Duke continued to stare at me as if the Diana of Ephesus had just stepped out of a mummy-case and bared her breasts at him.”
Read More Quote from today’s wordcountSpoilers for Heavy Ice below, in case you haven’t read it:
Read More Empressive!Warning! F-bomb and other possibly NSFW text under the cut.
Read More Snippets from projects on the go at present:One of the things I really should have done when I started all this is come up with a name for the future universe that Requite exists in, which also contains the FSSI and KinSpace and the Bind and other remnants of the Solannan Imperity and pre-Solannan colonisation. I can’t keep saying ‘A Requite Novel’ […]
Read More This Be The ‘Verse… so I suppose I’d better write something. Various projects are on the boil, long and short. None of them look likely to turn into a finished project any time soon, but things are moving along. I’ve started a Pinterest board of inspiration and random stuff to do with the Requite books. Also, annual reminder […]
Read More Well, I just paid to keep this blog ad-free for another year…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 multipliedIt looks like this.
Read More If you’ve ever wondered what the desk I work at looks like…Well, after a dip that I think was caused by Amazon’s rollout of Kindle Unlimited, sales seem to be picking back up again. I have no scientific answers as to why, but this Christmas I had a look at a relative’s Kindle with online lending enabled and the experience of searching the Kindle Store for […]
Read More Rambling on about my Kindle sales againfrom the Requite character’s reaction to it! 1) “I would very much like to run some tests on that old top hat they found.” – Tzenni Boccamera 2) “Even I know that it’s foolish to put your baby in anything a vrykol customarily eats out of.” – Ligeia Boccamera 3) *approval of depicted weather conditions* […]
Read More Guess the carol or Christmas songI assume quite a few of my readers are familiar with the Dungeons and Dragons alignment system. If not, it basically pigeonholes characters on two moral axes: good versus evil and law versus chaos. There are some odd wrinkles – there’s an ongoing argument, for example, about whether Chaotic Neutral can be a character with […]
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