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A four and a half star review by Natalie Baker over at The Bookbag, see here for full review. “Summary: A fast-paced, adventurous final book in the series that will keep you on tenterhooks until the very end.” “I might … Continue reading
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Some authors talk of their characters ‘surprising’ them by their actions; is this something that has happened to you? Characters can certainly be remarkably stubborn if I ask them to do or say something out of character. They just veer … Continue reading
[This is a continuation from the post below.] It’s interesting to see how you create your worlds; do you have a method of managing them? Do you lay out the world and story-arc before you start writing or is it … Continue reading
One of the nice things Orbit UK did when they published Song of the Shiver Barrens was to include an interview with me at the back. (The other nice thing for you readers – they included the first chapter of … Continue reading
Book manuscript is submitted to UK and Oz publishers, awaiting the rejection or acceptance… so what’s next? Well, firstly, there’s the clean-up-house project. A month away in Australia in March-April, preceded by several months of frantic manuscript rearrangement and polishing, … Continue reading
Every writer dreads that question, because we know that if someone had to ask it, they don’t get the way a writer’s mind works. Our problem is never ideas – but the writing. We trip over ideas all the time. … Continue reading
Over on the Denvention3 webpage for the Denver Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention to be held this August), they have started to put up the bios of participants. Oooo – I love this. All those great names: Lois McMaster Bujold … Continue reading
My husband just came home from Vienna. And brought lots of nostalgia home with him. The Graben. God, how I loved that city. That was his office up there… 11th floorAnd that’s the house we lived on from 1986 to … Continue reading
For those folk in UK about to buy Song of the Shiver Barrens – yes, it is Book 3 of the Mirage Makers, not Book Two as the title page says! You know, no matter how many times a book … Continue reading
There is an ongoing High Court case here about whether a Catholic weekly has the right to call their deity “Allah.” The weekly was prohibited from using the word “Allah” by the Home Ministry, and the Catholics are appealing. How … Continue reading