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Category Archives: Writing
Inspiring Places
Apologies for the radio silence, readers. I went on holiday, and somehow all my plans to get ahead of myself and schedule posts before I went didn’t work out. I suspect they didn’t work out because I was sadly behind … Continue reading
Posted in My books, Writing
Tagged #amwriting, #skiing, Alps, Courchevel, life of a writer, revising, Writing
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Do you binge?
Excuse the shameless self-promo today, readers, but I’m wildly excited to report that not only is my series, A Clockwork War, complete, but it’s now also available as a bargain-priced boxed set. Bingeing a series once it’s all available … Continue reading
Posted in My books, Writing
Tagged #amreading, #YAlit, alternate history, binge-reading, brothers, civil war, England and Scotland, family, historical fantasy, steampunk, war, young adult fantasy
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Do you start if you can’t finish?
Thank goodness for novellas this week, because if it weren’t for short books I’d have almost nothing to report! I stumbled upon the entirely excellent Dragon’s Thief by Lili Zander and Rory Reynolds (I agree, I do seem to have … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged #amreading, dragons, historical fantasy, Lili Zander, novellas, Rory Reynolds, series, series-starters, Young Adult
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Almost nothing happened.
I am a dreadful insomniac. I would love to find something that could make me drop off to sleep and stay that way until a decent hour of the morning, but until I do, I just consider the hours of … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged #amreading, Elizabeth Buchan, insomnia, insomnia cures, planning, plotting, sleepless nights, The New Mrs Clifton
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November means nano
Another tricky week, this week, readers. The Shattered Worlds Read Along finishes today with Miranda Hardy’s Death Knocks, except that I’d already read that, having got myself a bit out of order (it’s fabulous, btw). So there wasn’t a book … Continue reading
Posted in My books, Reading, Writing
Tagged #amreading, #NaNoWriMo, fantasy, great books, kelly st clare, raye wagner, Shattered Worlds
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Shattered Worlds Challenge: by the skin of my teeth
Well, it was looking like I might not manage a Shattered Worlds book report this week. Life’s been manic and I haven’t had as much time for reading as I would have liked. However, I’m delighted to report that I … Continue reading
Posted in My books, Reading, Writing
Tagged #amreading, #amwriting, #NaNoWriMo, Emily Martha Sorensen, nano, Shattered Worlds
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Shattered Worlds Challenge: Curse Breaker
My blog is late this week, because I only finished Curse Breaker last night (not a slow reader, I’ve been taken up with lots of non-fiction reading this week, all about marketing, social media and advertising, yawn). Curse Breaker is … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Writing
Tagged #amreading, Audrey Grey, fantasy, Fiction, Kindle, KU, Shattered Worlds, Young Adult
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Shattered Worlds Challenge – a surprising Scourge
This week I read A G Henley’s The Scourge. This took me by surprise in a lot of very good ways. What seemed at first to be a pre-industrial fantasy world turned out to be set in a post-apocalyptic future. … Continue reading
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Tagged #amreading, #YAlit, A G Henley, new books, paperbacks, post-apocalyptic, reading challenge, Shattered Worlds, steampunk
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