Quarter Of The Way There!

A couple of days ago, my beta, JK issued me a challenge. That challenge? Reach the 20 000 word mark by the end of the month. And do you know what? Even with a few bumps in the road1 I have managed to do that with just over four hours to spare. What makes this [...]

The Only Colour That Matters

The right-inset image was brought to my attention via the Allison and Busby blog. It’s a t-shirt from CafePress with the phrase “vampires prefer brunettes”1 – a reference to the line said by Edward in Twilight2 And it made me think, on characters, author appeal and funny. Now, while one of my vampires (the adorkable [...]

This Is Why Context Matters

While watching my Twitter feed go by, I noticed that Robbie was posting tiny snippets from the work he was currently reading. Since I was on a big Lionheart kick at the time, and we had been discussing Doctor Who and concepts like the TARDIS being bigger on the inside, I decided to post a [...]

Teaser Tuesday: Lionheart

So, I’m working on Lionheart. Which is all sorts of yayness. As you may have seen, I reached the 10 000 word mark late last week; right now I am sitting at just over 13 000. And since it is Tuesday, I am going to share a little snippet from Lionheart. “What do you remember?” [...]

I Must Be Crazy

I wrote one novel last year – Blood Bound. I am hoping to write another this year – Lionheart (book one). Failing that, I would like to have written the majority of that book, and have a lot of another also done. That’s because there is this one thing. I’ve decided to do NaNo this [...]