I am recovering from surgery and my blog may not be as active as it usually is. I will get back to it as soon as possible. ~~~~~ 25 Covers…Continue readingCovering Lady Chatterley
Every book has a story – of its origins, of the secrets and the inspiration which led to its existence, the surprises that leaped out at the writer during the…Continue readingWhence AbductiCon?
I and 33 other authors offer advice. I wasn’t consulted, but my best advice? “Nothing is EVER finished – but you have to know when to let go. It won’t…Continue readingHow can I write…?
Just why are these writers shunned? Science fiction authors have long been outcasts from the literary world, John Howell writes at galacticbrain.com, sometimes attacked by their own. He quotes Margaret…Continue readingWhat’s wrong with SF authors?
I was born in the Northern hemisphere, in July, in the SUMMER. I grew up on the changing of the seasons in their proper order – the bare trees of…Continue readingThe right seasons
A 5-star review of ‘Dawn of Magic’, the fourth and final book in my young adult series, Worldweavers, contains this delightful sentence: “There is probably some truth there to carry…Continue readingThe acceptance of moose
Well, for the rest of your life, anyhow. Heywood Hill, a London bookshop, is offering the books in a contest marking its 80th anniversary. To win, readers must nominate the…Continue readingFree books forever
I was born on an ancient river in a country which no longer exists. The country, then Yugoslavia, split into many parts, including my home, Serbia. The river was the…Continue readingMy River!
It seems so very long ago that I first tripped over a low-key article about a little known “women’s language”, called nu shu, which once existed in China, passed down…Continue readingWhen the words die…