This weekend my partner introduced me to the Anime series “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.” Across three days, we watched the 64 episodes with me asking extra questions on occasion to ensure I’d understood the concepts and back-story correctly. The series is technically a sequel …
Quiet Nights
Having just eaten 80% 85% of a bag of chocolate coins, I figured I could be doing something useful tonight. Hello. *waves* Of course it’s the kind of night which should have a whiskey in one hand and a blazing fire …
Reader Question :: “How long does it take you to write a novel?”
Back in the summer, I gave people the option to ask me questions about writing novels. You can still drop any queries over on that post if you want to. The first question was from Elsie Strangeland. “How long does it take you …
NaNoWriMo: WordCount Goals
November is fast approaching. I don’t understand why people say that; November stays still, doesn’t it? This means it’s nearly time for National Novel Writing Month (shortened to NaNoWriMo). What’s NaNoWriMo? On November 1 each year, over 300,000 participants begin working towards the …
Lessons from my Second Con: FantasyCon2014
Last weekend, I attended my second convention. FantasyCon, which was held up in York, was the first convention that required me to plan travel, stay in a hotel, eat out and return books because I couldn’t get them all home. It was also …
FantasyCon 2014
FantasyCon 2014, held in York, UK was my second writing convention. Last year, at World Fantasy Con in Brighton, I stayed at home, commuting each day with home-made lunches and not worrying about the logistics of getting twenty books home, which this year, …