Happy Christmas

Christmas Eve here at the moment. Christmas is only a few hours away. May you all have a happy holiday season.

Quick Reminder

Just a quick reminder that I am giving away a copy of Every Good Thing by M. Jules Aedin in December. Just comment on any December post and I’ll pick a winner at random from the comments posted here and at the Other Place blog.

Time to Get This Show Back on the Road

Okay. Family crisis whilst not over has calmed down for the moment. So I’m going to make it third time lucky for getting this blog going.

Blog on Hiatus…

…until the end of August.

See you all in September

I am a T-Shirt Geek

I think t-shirts are possibly the best clothing ever invented. lol

And my new favourite place to visit on the web is lastexittonowhere.com I must admit to not getting all the references without cheating. I’m obviously not as up on my sci-fi as I thought.

But I have treated myself to a Nostromo shirt and will be picking up a Sulaco one as well.*

* – Something of an Alien fan. Maybe because my only recurring dream involves Aliens in a supermarket doing their weekly shopping. Which possibly says more about how I feel about supermarket shopping than how I feel about Aliens.

In Which Real Life Hits With A Bump

Apologies for my absence. We went from having loads of time to get the house ready, to the house being on the market and still being decorated. So things have been more than a little bit mad here. I’m currently in a bit of a lull – thank goodness.

Currently reworking The Baragain, and the first draft of the Raven. Sqeezing my writing in at the moment around my job, family committments and (hopefully) selling the house, so things are progressing slowly.

Online fiction – it’s going to be difficult for me to devote the time needed to do a complete story. SO…. Taking a leaf out of Maura Anderson’s book I have decided to post snippets along the lines of her Friday Flash fiction. Where these relate to specific settings – e.g. Land of the Fey – I’ll make a note. And hopefully it will give you something to read whilst I get my head down and concentrate on the main stories.

Just…

…doing a little rearranging on the blog.

Just because…

There should be more posts which feature naked mole rats…

I’m Back

Nope, I didn’t forget to blog. Not this time anyway.

My internet connection has been down for the past few days, which kind of sucks. But hopefully it is now all sorted and things can get back to my usual infrequent posting schedule.

In WIP progress I’m very nearly through the beta readers comments and the word count is up to 34,000.

This is twice as long as If Wishes Were Horses was when I submitted it. IWWH was submitted with 17,000 words and I think the final version was eventually over 20,000. So I may still reach my target of 50,000 words at some point.

Sigh

I admit to being something of a chocoholic and I bought three tubs of Kirsch Cherries just over a week ago. This was something of an indulgence. It’s one of those chocolates that calls to you as you pass the cupboard in the kitchen where you’ve stashed them.

Only they won’t be calling any more because they’ve all gone.