It's been a tough week, since my chest infection turned zombie-like (or maybe vampiric?) and Would Not Die. So, not much got done apart from coughing...

But look what came via Twitter and cheered me up immensely!


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The Stolen Magic blog tour is over - but to mark the one-week anniversary of Stolen Magic's release into the world, Emily Mah and I are giving away a copy of the beautiful ring she designed explicitly for this book!

When Emily asked me what would be the perfect piece of jewelry for Stolen Magic, there were two elements that were really important ( Read more... )

Woot woot woot! The third and final Kat book is officially out now in the UK in both paperback and ebook editions, as A Reckless MagickKat battles smugglers, snobbery and spies, and finds out some deep, scary family secrets...including unexpected news about her own mother. Frederick and Angeline are finally ready to get married, if they can survive ( Read more... )

This morning the doorbell rang at Hideously Early O'Clock. I groaned and covered my head, Patrick ran downstairs to answer the door ( Read more... )

Thank you guys so much for the graphic novel recommendations! I am taking note of all of them (you can see the growing list in the comments to yesterday's entry), and I can't wait to try them all out.

I have something else I want to post a public thank-you for as well.

Next Wednesday, October 5th, will mark 6 months since Kat, Incorrigible (a.k. ( Read more... )

Thanks for all the help on my book-buying indecision! That problem was solved beautifully, through the creative strategizing of various friends - I feel VERY lucky! - but sadly, I'm still feeling seriously zombie-like right now, because I've had far too many nights in a row without much sleep - the price of toddler-parenthood. Just imagine me lying ( Read more... )

As everyone who's seen the news lately knows, it's been a really worrying and sad few days in the UK. In my tiny, peaceful Welsh town, I'm too far from the riots to be able to give any intelligent commentary on them, but like everyone else, I have spent a lot of the last few days feeling unhappy, worried and tense as they've taken place in cities ( Read more... )