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Goodbye for now
Hello all,
It's been approximately an age since I last posted here, and frankly I don't see myself writing anything again soon. Part of that is that my life is very full right now. Some good stuff, like a new job, lots of friends, a brief spate of dating. Some bad stuff, like an unutterably terrible thing that just went down that's left me ( Read more... ) -
Creative, or die trying!
Hello my dear ones,
A bit of a (belated) announcement first: The anthologies as part of the summer UK authors/fans meet have release dates! They are:
British Flash - to be published on 16th June as a free ebook
Contributing authors: Alex Beecroft, Stevie Carroll, Charlie Cochrane,
Erastes, Elin Gregory, Sandra Lindsey, Clare London, JL Merrow,
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We, the explorers
I don't think it's too great a spoiler to mention here that the Apollo space program featured in Saturday's episode of Doctor Who. They showed the footage that everyone has seen, of course, and played the words that everyone knows. They played Kennedy's words on Doctor Who Confidential, the handsome man standing there, announcing that we would go ( Read more... ) -
On emerging, in many ways
Oh dear. Oh deary me. Oh deary, deary me. Perhaps if I do my very best Stephen Fry impersonation, you will be kind enough to not notice my absence?
Particularly since that absence is now ended?
...or is the resounding chime of crickets a sign that you did not shrivel and dry up without my deathless prose?
Because I am back, my darlings. It's been ( Read more... ) -
Apparently I publish in clumps?
I Reach Through Time and Touch the Other Side* will be out April 6th. It's another novella, this one speculative fiction. It was quite an odd little story to write; I started it in Philadelphia International Airport after having a dream about finding a new floor on the Humanities Building. I was telling my mother about it, and she mentioned she' ( Read more... ) -
Young Man in Paris
Cor, that was fast! My historical novella, Young Man in Paris, is up at Dreamspinner Press' store, and will be released March 16. I am stupidly excited, and only a little bit because it's been yoinks since I last had a new story out. Go and check out the cover and tell me it is not twelve thousand kinds of awesome. It's by Paul Richmond [ ( Read more... ) -
I Aten't Dead (Yet)
HEY KIDS!
Yeah, not quite dead yet. But frankly, about 95% of my life violently blows right now, and I'm a fairly miserable human being. So, not so much blogging. You do not come here to listen to me be dead inside, which is how things are right now, frankly.
In writerly news, though, Dreamspinner will be releasing a novella of mine set in 1920's ( Read more... ) -
If you know how my birthdays usually go...
...what is about to happen is both typical and hilarious.
So! I am very nearly 29 (in two hours or so, EST). I think I am more worried about freaking out over nearly being 30 than actually nearly being 30. 28 should be pretty nifty. I'll graduate (well, presumably), hopefully get a job, visa, and a new flat in Cardiff. Basically, I will get to ( Read more... ) -
On being back 'home'
Well, I have managed to be pretty much the only person to make it out of Heathrow just about when I expected to do so, and even the jetlag is mostly gone after a day or two. Philly's all right; I think I'll be happier when I get out of the house a bit tonight to have dinner with friends. Mostly, though, I'm overwhelmed by how much I...frankly ( Read more... ) -
Speak Its Name Advent Calendar
Hello Cats and Kittens!
Before I begin, I think I should let you have a peek into the exotic life of your average romance writer. I am sitting here, having completed my chores for the day (including the fastest re-soleing and re-heeling of a pair of boots in the world I love you Timpsons on Queen St!), dying my hair with Lush's henna bricks. This ( Read more... )