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We’ve been working away this week on CreatureCourt.com, a website for all things to do with my upcoming trilogy. There is a blog as part of it, but I’ll be using that mostly for news items, and anything overly exciting will likely be discussed here at great length. It’s more to ( Read more... )

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1. I have a guest post up at Justine Larbalestier’s blog, talking about how reading has become a luxury rather than a necessity. I may be trying to do more about that shortly, but my priority right now should not be reading, it is EDITING.

2. The hardest thing about revising this ( Read more... )

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We seem to be on track for Christmas - only more house cleaning and food shopping to do. I woke up this morning with the excellent news that Arsenal beat Hull 3-0 and promptly demanded a celebratory sleep-in. Well more to the point I was up for too much in the middle of the night ( Read more... )

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I’ve been the person who rolls my eyes at any book that features horses and maps.  As a creative writing teacher, I always warned wannabe fantasy writers about the dangers of getting so swept up in the detail of their worldbuilding that they never got around to writing the actual ( Read more... )

This has been a big writing week, really. Having finished the draft of book 2 finally, my task was to seriously get to grips with the edits of book 1. I eyed the large pile of manuscript pages with due fear and trepidation - 600+ pages! But Glenda Larke put me in my place on Twitter by telling me her proofs were also 600+ pages - and hers weren' ( Read more... )