When I was a new, scared little writer (well, much like now, but I was even worse six months ago!) I was stunned by how supportive many established authors were, including the very lovely Tara Lain. Tara invited me to guest at her blog when Bound for the Forest first came out, and now I am honored to be able to return the favor.

Tara is a superstar ( Read more... )

I’ve recently been asked to pick my favorite single sentence from my writing for a blog, and so went through Bound for the Forest and came up with the following (which are minus the one I decided upon for the blog.)

Actually, I couldn’t use my first choice, because it contains the f-word (bad me!) so I’ve included that below.   And my very favorite ( Read more... )

It's giveaway time - again! Stumbling Over Chaos will be handing out an e-copy of Bound for the Forest to one lucky commenter.  If you still want to get your hands on a copy, do pop over -- and there is the lovely bonus of cute cat pictures.

Thanks so much to everyone who wrote a little review of Bound for the Forest at Amazon, Amazon.co.uk and  ( Read more... )

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Today I’m guest blogging for alex_beecroft, author of many brilliant historical and fantasy novels.

My post is on Fantasy and History: Bring on the Dragons. Read it here on LJ or visit her beautiful website.

Thanks so much for having me, Alex!


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I've been blogging about the joys and difficulties of writing historical fiction over at Flirty Author Bitches.

And - yay! It's sunny...on the day I'm staying in to write and edit madly.  Isn't that always the way?  awkbyname and I had a very pleasant trip to Brighton yesterday to generally talk non-stop and plot world domination, and did we see the sun ( Read more... )

...well, sort of!

I set up kayberrisford.com a few months ago. Being my usual tardy self, only now do I start thinking seriously about getting it going.

My excuse for procrastination this time is that I really am not an expert in website design.  While excitedly awaiting artwork for "Bound for the Forest", I thought I might use a picture by one of my ( Read more... )