Wow.
Been away for a while, wandering the internet in my little red spaceship. This place has gone through some seriously cool upgrades since I last dropped in. Still the same awesome site underneath though.

Just ended up living in a place that's slap-bang next to a library, so with a virtually limitless supply of books a mere stones throw away (they're gonna be furious about that window), this seems the perfect time to get my butt back into the SF&F groove, which I...

The first panel was ‘The Series Question: Big Books Chopped Up or Small Books Glued Together’. On the panel were David Cornish, Kate Forsyth, Ian Irvine & Lara Morgan. There were of course many reasons for & against this & of course, the publishers having much to do with it.

At midday, I dashed off to get Trudi Canavan’s signature on my copy of ‘Priestess of the White’. She kindly signed my copy & someone obligingly took a photograph of us.

Took...

that's what it feels like.

i can see Heir to the North taking shape: one gap to fill in the first half of the book, then it gets very interesting indeed as i introduce the series' titular villain. meanwhile i'm trying to break down High King's Vengeance into a chapter-by-chapter synopsis - this one needs to be planned out a hell of a lot more than the first book. oh, and did i mention the possibility of following these two with another related story (title so hush-hush i can't even...

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Ok, life is busy. But also wonderful. Today, I dressed up in vest, top, jumper, fleece, jeans, warm socks, hat, gloves, scarf, and we took the kids down the park. It was bl**dy freezing in the wind, but the kids didn't feel the cold, and both of them rode their bikes to the point of exhaustion with their friends.

We then went, with the friends, to a local pub, where we had a huge feast on the Sunday roast (and I was extremely grateful not to have to cook or wash up) and the kids and...