What Would You Like to See More Of?

Yay, the latest update to WordPress has fixed the bugs that made it next to impossible for me to post from my iPad, so that means I should be able to update this blog more frequently. I’m on the move so much in term time, that having mobile activities to do...

Writer Achievements and Resolutions

Well, it’s a New Year. A whole new year in which to achieve things. I’m hoping 2014 will be the big year, when I start making more self-publishing than it costs! 2013 was a pretty good year. I published 3 books, which I wouldn’t have predicted at the...

Fantasy Friday – Descriptions

Descriptions are one of those things I struggle with. I rarely appreciate them in novels, and tend to skim over them to see if there’s anything important to the characters or story! So it’s not surprising that my first drafts are rather sparse on the...

Researching Reckless Recon

It’s easy to think that fiction books, even more so sci-fi or fantasy, which are, after all, from made up worlds, don’t involve much research. And it’s true, compared to something like historical fiction, they don’t. I don’t need to...

Fantasy Friday – A Battle

Last week I left our characters ready to defend against some attacking trolls. Today, I thought I’d give you a taste of that battle. Brianna is ready to fight. But do they have any hope against enemies such as these? Adrenalin surged through her veins. Behind...

Priorities

You may have noticed that my posts have been a bit thin on the ground lately, and that I kind of fell of the face of the NaNoWriMo planet there. Things have been a bit hectic here at home, and when my attention is needed elsewhere, something in my huge list of...