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You know, the day job thingy. Not that fun writing stuff that’s so easy I can whip up in a book in my spare time in a few weeks… I actually thought the second phase of the birding tourism project … Continue reading
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. So, no sooner do I hand in Stormlord’s Exile on Sunday – updated with editorial input changes – than one of my beta readers (Phill Berrie, bless him) points out a large plot hole towards the end that no … Continue reading
Firstly, so far so good. Stormlord Rising has been selling well in US, an indication that readers of The Last Stormlord want to know what happens next. I have my first Amazon reviews, and — as I am totally into … Continue reading
This is either hysterically funny, or excruciatingly wince-making. A tweet from Terry of BabelClash fame (see Borders.com) sent me to have a look at the NPR site and Librarian Nancy Pearl talking about “under the radar reads”. One of the … Continue reading
…20,100 people from 125 countries visited this blog, according to ClusterMaps. (I’m not going to rock the world with those figures, am I?) Google Analytics has a higher number, almost 23,000, of whom 9,657 were distinct visitors from 122 countries… … Continue reading
Re the photo from B&N I posted yesterday, it seems this was the front-of-the-store display. What you see as you walk in the front door. Right next to Margaret Atwood’s latest too… And just after I posted yesterday’s blog, feeling … Continue reading
My daughter walked into her local Barnes & Noble bookshop in Virginia last night and was confronted with this on the display – a mix of mainstream and genre…her mum right among them… You know what I will NEVER get … Continue reading
One reviewer called it the best middle-book-of-a-trilogy ever! See reviews here. And here. And here. Buy from Amazon by clicking on the button above. Buy from Barnes & Noble here. They say you can reserve and pick up from your … Continue reading
. No blog post today. Instead you have to hurry on over to the murky underbelly of geekdom, Geek Syndicate and read my interview with the fabulous Liz…about women in genre fiction. And thanks Karen Miller. You rock too! … Continue reading
. A look at The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell First, let me get a few things straight. Any attempt to categorise fiction and place each story into its correct genre box is basically futile. Even … Continue reading