Happy Halloween, Samhain and Celtic New Year to those who celebrate those events! I’m at the World Fantasy Convention today, wearing the dress pictured. I will either be at the events timetabled here or in the bar, so if you want to …
World Fantasy Convention 2013 – The Schedule
As stated back in this post, I’ve been hoping to share with you my planned attendance of various events at World Fantasy Convention 2013. Since a draft of the programme came out on Tuesday, I raced through it for some …
Thoughts from a Writing Workshop
At the beginning the month I attended a Novel in a Day workshop run by Victoria Connelly. I’d really recommend it, because despite owning about 25 “how to write books”, I still learned a lot. We did some practical exercises, …
Weekend Workshop
This weekend I’m flitting between Cambridge and Suffolk – attending a workshop and seeing my sister-in-writing, Sorcha. We’ve sat in Waterstones writing, planned and edited our novels and sat in front of a fire discussing our favourite books. Normal service shall …
WFC2013 – Excitement Builds
This post has been sitting in my “drafts” section since the 17th of August. Despite some of the blogs around the web saying that they received the programming grid for WFC11/12 (i.e. the schedule of talks/events for the convention) a …
Events and Workshops
Although I began writing novels and attending Creative Writing groups in 2009, it wasn’t until this year that I brought my writing career into focus. I attend a local monthly meetup, which gives me ample opportunity to sound off, discuss …