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It’s not an easy read; a portrait of a land, and a people, and a person – Bjartur of Summerhouses. It’s definitely easier to read this if you have visited Iceland; seen, and felt, the landscape. If you have you…
Continue readingThere is really cool author promo event running on Facebook throughout December called Christmas For Authors. I decided to participate in it as it helps Indie authors (like me) get exposure and helps to boost book sales. We authors have…
Continue readingI’m not sure if I really realised until recently how much I like re-imagining old stories, but I really do. I’m reading A.S. Byatt’s new book Ragnarok at the moment and loving her take on many of the same myths…
Continue readingIn hindsight today’s free promotion on amazon was not the best planned foray into the world of free marketing. Thursdays are apparently a good day to do it, but Thursday’s is also usually band night and so I would have…
Continue readingI’ve started reading Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt. Ragnarok is the final war of the gods, or the end of the world. I use it as the title for the final part of my own novel, The End Of All Worlds….
Continue readingThere were moments of dark, fairy terror in Michelle Harrison’s 13 Treasures trilogy, but nothing so dark and genuinely scary as Unrest. Really, truly, don’t read some of the early chapters just before bed – not unless you enjoy inducing…
Continue readingInspired by this article in today’s Observer on the pleasures of rereading, here are a few of my forever friends of the book world, and why. The list isn’t exhaustive, just the one’s that come to mind. Swallows & Amazons…
Continue readingI have a perennial New Year’s resolution to read more. One that I’ve not been doing to too good at. I keep a log of all the books I read (note: it is also updated online via the Facebook Booktracker…
Continue readingThis weekend we finally managed to “Christmas” Emma after the washout that was last Sunday, when we got down to the New Forest for New Year. We had roast beef dinner to see out the old year and then settled…
Continue readingAs always, on this day I traditionally round up my reading for the year in the vague hope that I will have fulfilled my perennial resolution to read more. I think this year I seem to be up on last…
Continue reading~ Today was a quieter day, although not without its busy moments. Chiefly the pre-Christmas shop… no regular Ocado delivery in Christmas week, and seeing as as we had vouchers to spend we headed out to Thame and to Waitrose…
Continue readingI had a part review of the first eight chapter of Mr Tumnal from Sophie today. Whilst the first part of her critique filled me with horror: I’m enjoying your story, it’s quite a mystery. I still feel as if…
Continue readingOn this day, each year, I now traditionally round up my reading for the year in the vague hope that I will have fulfilled my perennial resolution to read more. Sadly, this year, by number of books alone, I have…
Continue reading“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was…
Continue readingI dispatched Emma to work this morning and set about a leisurely morning doing things around the house. I fed and watered the chickens, the bunnies and the wild birds, processed some washing, changed the beds, and wrapped Emma’s presents…
Continue readingI have been challenged by Jane to come up with my Top Seven Diana Wynne Jones books – that’s seven books for seven days of the DWJ week. Seven books, I thought, that sounds easy I can come up with…
Continue readingI’m going to write about Fire & Hemlock again, but this time from the perspective of the writer, ispired to write because of it. One of the things I love about Fire & Hemlock is its rich use of source…
Continue readingIt’s Diana Wynne Jones week this week, and I’ve been taking my time in deciding how best to celebrate this fact, and which book to review. My friend Jane has already reviewed Fire & Hemlock, my all time favourite Diana…
Continue readingAmazon Kindle: Thomas Shepherd shared from Twilight kindle.amazon.com “I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.” I’ve never really been that enthusiastic to read the Twilight, but it has been a…
Continue readingIn the last month I have become an Amazon Kindle owner, and in part to try out this new world of eBooks, and in part because as an eBook it was dirt cheap, I have put a copy of Stephanie…
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