~If you are, then one of the avenues open to you is to seek professional help – which, of course, comes with a price tag. If you are debating where you need this kind of help then you could do … Continue reading
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At the end of The Aware, Blaze has a dog, a marsh dog with webbed feet. At the beginning of the second book of that trilogy, Gilfeather, the dog was still with her. Then, for a part of the story, … Continue reading
_…today. And saw The Dark Knight. Brilliant. Loved it. Harrowing, but superb. And Heath Ledger was outstanding, and I am not just saying that because he died so young, or because he’s from my home town. He deserves every bit … Continue reading
_This from Jim Hines, author of Goblin Quest, etc. You can see the whole poem here. I am the Very Model of a Modern SF Novelist I am the very model of a modern SF novelist,I’ve manuscripts space opera, anime, … Continue reading
World Youth Day, Australia. Photo credit here. (via Jenny Fallon) Given yet another controversy in Australia about whether the Catholic Church is truly sorry for the sexual abuse meted out to children under the pastoral care of its priests, maybe … Continue reading
Last Friday was apparently “post a rejection letter” day, which started here with Shaun K.Green. Ok, so I’m rather late. I opened up a file, and here is an extract from the first one I came across, sent to my … Continue reading
– Orchids, gingers, ferns and bees… The bird’s nest fern on the stand is a big problem for us at the moment, because wild honey bees have built a nest in the stand. … Continue reading
Getting there, getting there. If I think of the target for the first draft as being 170,000 then the picometer looks like this which is even better: However, I am taking a bit of a break for a few days, … Continue reading
–I love it the way my agent blithely says: Send me a synopsis, will you? – as if I can churn one out in ten minutes. I’d rather write a 5,000 word chapter than one synopsis for a single book, … Continue reading
–My niece has sent me a link to a picture of Blaze Halfbreed (with a VERY large sword) done by a reader (InusyashaRaven) and uploaded at Deviant Art. Thanks Abby… Still writing. … Continue reading