April 2003

From Iceland Review Edward Weinman writes the final word on Reykjavik When I tell people that I live in Iceland, they look at me as if I have just stepped off a silver spaceship having travelled to earth from the…

Okay, so I have to wait till the end of June, but I’ve just found out that I can get a laptop for free. I don’t know what spec it is (but it’ll be decent I can guarantee), it will…

Okay, so I have to wait till the end of June, but I’ve just found out that I can get a laptop for free. I don’t know what spec it is (but it’ll be decent I can guarantee), it will…

Ben climbs into his bed in the small guestroom with the eye-level windows in the basement floor of his aunt and uncle’s Reykjavik house. He lies against the pillows staring back across the room at the atmosphic black and white…

Ben climbs into his bed in the small guestroom with the eye-level windows in the basement floor of his aunt and uncle’s Reykjavik house. He lies against the pillows staring back across the room at the atmosphic black and white…

And I don’t just mean the weather 🙂 The usual gang weren’t around for lunch today, so for half my hour I deserted the building for a wooden bench in the local sun trap (conveniently located in the middle of…

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. “It is time,” he said, “for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you…

I know I’ve been advising soulsong that it doesn’t matter what you write as you long get the gist of story down there that you can go back to look at, mull over and tweak once you’ve finished it, and…

Yup! Now all my fellow friends can click on the amazon links within shepline.com and by there stuff from there – and in doing so, earn me some lovely money!! I’ll do my best to recommend books, CDs, DVDs and…

My writing is really flowing together and I’m getting back into the heads of Helen and Ben and Gerður. Where I’m slipping up is with what happens exactly where…? I was on fire writing this fantastic scene with Helen and…

…okay, so it’s not. There’s nothing I would like better than to sit down with a steaming cup of hot chocolate, a the ball of fresh ice cream circling on the surface slowly melting in swirls of delicious creaminess, firing…

Saw this on rachel2205‘s journal, and thought that I just had share… I will expect a great deal of you but hope to give the same amount back. I will be disappointed if you don’t do what I think is…

I have a situation in my novel Blood and Fire, where the threat to the world comes from a bunch of scientists and engineers who have discovered a way to harness energy from the world of the gods to power…

I’ve been puzzeling over what Helen experiences in the mountains? …and after much thinking of possible senarios, it’s the simplest that actually fits: The weather closes in, and Helen, pausing for a moment loses her way, stumbling about she finds…

I think it was some sort of disappointment thing that yesterday (being cold, grey and altogether wintery) wasn’t as warm, sunny and summery as Saturday that I spent a good deal of the day just faffing, which is annoying because…

Pepper has returned home after his two nights and a day jaunt around the local area. I came downstairs this morning to find him mewing outside the patio doors. Further training I think this weekend in the use of a…

Okay, so here we are the revised lineage for the family involved in Blood & Fire – just hope I’ve got all the sons and dóttir variables right…?

Just what kind of journal will my Estonian holiday give me I wonder? Roll on July please… I’ve now posted tales of my adventures in the new Travelogues section of my site. It’s just a reprinting of what has already…

A curious thought has occurred to me over the last few days partly brought about through writing in this journal and how you can make friends virtually with people with whom you would have little chance of meeting “face to…

Odin – a god, but by other names Boverk (Evil-doer), Gangleri (walk-weery), Harbard (grey-beard), Helblindi (hel blind), Svipal (changeable), Sidhotd (long-hood), Vak (wakeful), Ygg (terrible) – I like Gangleri as the name for the twenty-first century counterpart of my “Stranger/Emrys”…