"The Radiant Boy" just went into print. Huzzah! Now I have to wait; something I'm not very good at. Let's hope the readers will like it - four ghost stories, and not one vampire in sight!
I still have the draft for that story about the Royal Navy's run-in with a French ship, a portable guillotine, five French aristocrats and Citoyen Faucet on my ( Read more... )

To say that I'm floored by the outcome of this auction would be the understatement of the year...


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The current high-bid is £ 100.00. If you'd like to read the conditions and more details (or place a bid!), please click the link below.

Help the flood victims in Pakistan and win your own Age if Sail ghost story!

Written by Emma Collingwood - as an audio file, read by myself. It will be one of the stories in "The Radiant Boy"; an old-fashioned ( Read more... )

Good news: there's now a community on LJ which runs charity auctions for the victims of the floods in Pakistan. Fanfic, audiomixes, food, arts, services - just like with Help Haiti. You can find the community here: help_pakistan

And because it's Friday and I'm a pest like that, I'll bump my own charity auction here on LJ:

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Written by Emma Collingwood - as an audio file, read by myself. It will be one of the stories in "The Radiant Boy"; an old-fashioned ghost story set in the Age of Sail.  You'll get my strange accent for free, and I'll throw in some choccies as well.

This is a one-of-the-kind item, nobody else will get it. You can keep it for yourself, you can share ( Read more... )

Edited to add: the audio version of that one story won't be for sale; it will be available as a freebie on my website.

With the release of "The Radiant Boy" just around the corner (or two corners, considering there will be a print and an e-book version), I'd like to ask for your opinions, input and feedback regarding audio books / podfics.

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I received the illustrations and the cover art by Mlle Amandine de Villeneuve (aka lineae ), and was once more completely stunned and in awe of her talent both at drawing and catching the personalities of my characters with pen and Indian ink.

"The Radiant Boy" is almost finished, and I can promise you eery tales set in the Age of Sail, tributes to the ( Read more... )

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06/2009 "The Radiant Boy" (Age of Sail)10/2009 "The Purser, the Surgeon, the Captain and his Lieutenant" (Age of Sail / contemporary, m/m)11/2009 "The Jackdaw" (Age of Sail, m/m)2009 "Menschen sind nicht undoof" (children's book in German, charity project)2010 "Old Cuddy" (children's book - Collingwood as seen by his dog Bounce)2010 Untitled - ( Read more... )

THE RADIANT BOY: FINISHED!
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