Taking her with me into the shadows of my dreams While I was updating my Le Guin collection with the Hainish books I lacked, in preparation for my Big Re-Read…Continue readingRe-reading Ursula
Okay so I saw a bunch of trailers for this movie – but that was an under-the-radar kind of thing, I looked because it had “Book Club” in the title,…Continue readingSometimes it takes a Book Club…
…there is soot So, I was downstairs in the office working on my latest book while hubs was upstairs, making baked potatoes for supper. Often when I’m writing, I am…Continue readingWhere there’s smoke…
I have read thousands of novels, but only a bare handful I can call perfect — books I love with a pure and undying passion, to which I return, over…Continue readingAnatomy of a perfect book
Despite the warnings, I never got lost in ‘The Infinity War’ I was warned that walking into ‘Avengers: The Infinity War’ without screeds of background was going to be a…Continue readingThe Superhero Rapture
10 authorial confessions 1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which I am typing appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized…Continue readingThe Possessed Author
More than a decade after my most popular book, ‘The Secrets of Jin-shei’, was published, it keeps cropping up here and there – sometimes in a new form (an ebook…Continue readingWhen a Novel Came to Tea
Connor McSheffrey@mcsheffrey at Unsplash As all poets understand, the core of what makes us human isn’t a static thing. We’re on a journey – some say it’s from the moment…Continue readingRUMInations 3 – The eternal journey
No, a writer should never… Photo by Hannah Olinger, Unsplash Writing advice for storytellers is… well… cheap and you can find it everywhere. It’s usually harmless and occasionally even useful,…Continue readingA writer should always…