A nice review from Lera at GoodReads, in which she says that The Maker’s Mask is stylistically in the fine tradition of pulp fantasy. Which, ahahahah, it so is. I used to spend hours happily reading Edgar Rice Burroughs at my grandmother’s flat, among the brass knick-knacks she used to collect and the pot-plants. She […]
Read More Planetary romanceI haven’t been vanity-Googling my nom de plume much, because I think vanity-Googlers mostly hear no good of themselves. But perhaps I should have been… Today, while trying to help my father find my blog, I discovered that Amazon truncates ‘writing historical novels about periods that haven’t happened yet’ to ‘writing historical novels about periods’. […]
Read More PeriodicalsShoutout to the person who got here searching on ‘worldbuilding is hard’. You’re right, it really is! Fist bump to the person who got here searching on ‘what will karely be when she grows up’. Happy, I hope. Cheery wave to the person who got here searching on ‘latinus wink’. I have no idea what […]
Read More I Get SearchesNew today: a lovely review (you may need to scroll down) from Lesley Hall on her site. In other news, I am reading Wendy Moore’s Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match, and am gripped.
Read More A review and a recommendationToday brought cheering and unexpected news: I’ve sold more books than I thought I had, because apparently the Amazon and Book Depository orders all come through in one lump at the beginning of the month. Who knew? Not me, because self-publishing is a continuing voyage of discovery. 🙂 The beginning of the week brought a […]
Read More UpdateJust for the Halloween weekend – enter code GHOST at checkout and get 20% off any order up to £100. I wouldn’t say my books are particularly Halloween-appropriate, though they do have monsters in. 😉
Read More Another money off code from LuluWell, I have now made the grand total of 45p from Amazon referrals. When I told my husband about this he said ‘Well done!’ entirely unironically. Oh dear. I also had a baffling email from Amazon this morning suggesting I might want to display a large banner ad for the Kindle. I suppose there may […]
Read More BlogrollFinally worked out where one of the damn flashbacks fits into Heavy Ice. Yay! Including flashbacks is like starting one of those novelty three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles: it’s only a good idea if you have a very clear idea of what the finished edifice will look like, which I generally don’t. November is coming, so good […]
Read More Things I have achieved todayThe BBC just finished an amazing project called A History Of The World In 100 Objects. I’m still working my way through listening to the podcasts. The idea is that each short programme takes an object from the British Museum’s collection and talks about it in the context of the society that created it, and […]
Read More WorldbuildingAmazon.co.uk is acknowledging the existence of The Hawkwood War! Also, my husband is reading The Maker’s Mask and doesn’t hate it so far, which is a relief.
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Ankaret Wells 