I wrote a review of China Mieville’s ‘Iron Council’ 16 years ago. I remember clearly writing that review. I remember the breathlessness that this book left me with, the way…Continue reading‘Iron Council’: A fevered dream of a book
World Building 101: Writing the familiar … For works of fiction set in familiar worlds, the ones in which the reader already lives and is accustomed to, world building is…Continue readingLiving in a world you created
The girl who became the greatest wizard of all I first wrote the Worldweavers series as a trilogy published by Harper Collins. It told the story of the girl who…Continue readingHelp me bring back a great series
I just, JUST, had a new novel come out – “The Second Star”, now doing the rounds in Paperback, eBook and Audiobook editions and garnering reader responses and reviews that…Continue readingNew Book, New World, New Language
META L: Worldbuilding 101: Three approaches to create your own worlds. You can make experimental trips on all of them, or take a sharp right into virgin woods and bushwhack…Continue readingThree Ways to Build a World
I was weaned on poetry. My grandfather was a poet and he was reading me his sonnets before I was fully five years old. On one memorable occasion, I interrupted…Continue readingHow poetry became part of my soul