WorldFantasyCon: A Brief Update

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 Bat Dress

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 …

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 …