It’s Monday afternoon, and I’m sat in my tip of a room enjoying a green tea and some pretty music. The last few days have been… exhilarating, inspiring, shattering and hilarious. Thursday I’ll be posting my full photo diary of …
Halloween at WFC
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, …
The Fault In Our Stars – Review
It’s rare for me to read a book without knowing roughly what it’s about. But that’s what happened with this one – I knew the cover from bookshops, and remembered it was meant to be a good book. I grabbed …
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 …