Yippee!

I just hit the 30 000 word mark, and at just the point in the story I wanted to as well. I’ve just ended the chapter at that point with our heroes jumping from the airship being chased by possessed security guards. Now I am off for the weekend to stay with family in Blenheim. [...]

Teaser Tuesday: Lionheart

It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time for a teaser! Especially since I just reached the 28 000 word mark aka 35%. Anyway here’s a fragment from Lionheart where the main character, Leander, tries to scry for the first time, under the guidances of a hedgewitch. Leander agrees to let Angelika help him as he [...]

Thanks For The Memories

When I woke up this morning, I found in my inbox an email from my beta, JK. Attached were the edited versions of the last three chapters of Blood Bound. That means the second major round of editing, and about the third or fourth round of editing altogether. This is not the rough-around-the-edges Blood Bound [...]

What I Have Read This Year

This was previously posted to On The Nightstand So, I was looking at some posts on Absolute Write where members were discussing books that they had read, and their goal to read 100 books. It inspired me to have a look at all the books I have read this year. According to my OpenOffice spreadsheet, [...]

I’m Not Very Good With Names

It’s not just in real life that they are not my strength. Sometimes it takes me forever to find that perfect name for a character, and I sometimes go through different variations and stages of names to find “the perfect one”. And until then I just have placeholders. One example would be one who has [...]