Thomas the Rhymer is a popular Scottish folk ballad. The hero of the song, Thomas, is out one fine morning when a lady on a milk white steed comes riding over the moor towards him. Recognising that the beautiful woman is no mere mortal and no doubt recalling that it’s always best to be polite to…
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Launch Day! Unveiled Book Three
Book Three of the Unveiled series – I Hold the Tide – is available for purchase now In paperback Amazon ebook (UK) (USA) And epub for other ereaders via Smashwords, ibooks, Barnes and Noble etc ‘Do you like ghost stories, Emily? Mine doesn’t have a happy ending…’ Emlynn’s power is spiralling out of control. Still…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume One – How to write a Sentence
You might be looking at that deceptively simple title thinking, but everyone can write a sentence. Well, yes, illiteracy aside, everyone probably can. The point is to write a sentence that grips people and makes them want to read on. To write sentences that create sympathy between your audience and your characters. Used correctly…
Throwback Thursday: A Perfect Dystopia
(First published on my old blog, 24th October 2013) One of my favorite forms of genre fiction is dystopian fiction. The word Dystopia is of greek origin, coming from two words meaning ‘hard land’. It was used in answer to Thomas Moore’s coined term ‘Utopia’ from the book of the same name. While a Utopian…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume one – Plot and Character
(First Published on my old blog, 28th October 2013) By now I wouldn’t blame you if you were thinking, ‘just how long can she go on about York FoW13? It was a month ago!’ And you’d be right in as far as no amount of blog posts can recapture the experience of going yourself. That…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume One – Slushpile hell to Slushpile heaven
(First published on my old blog, 12th October 2013) Right, after my lazy attempt last night, I feel I should deliver some substance today so here is the next installment in my York FoW13 chronicles. This seminar was run by the lovely Julia Churchill and Penny Holroyde (both well known agents). It focused on…
Throwback Thursday:Tales of York, Volume One – Lovers, Buddies and the Tragedy Paper.
(First published on my old blog, 7th October 2013) The first seminar I attended at York FoW13, was ‘Lovers and Buddies; 7 steps to friendship and romance’, by Jeremy Sheldon. I’d never been to a writing seminar of any kind before. In fact any seminars I usually attend have horrifying medical slide shows attached, so…
Tales of York, Volume one: A Distinct lack of Brimstone
(First published on my old blog, 4th October 2013) From the title, I’m sure you can guess I’m continuing my York memoirs 😉 In this instance I want to talk about agents. If you read my earlier York post, you’ll know that I was very nervous about going due to my ineptitude at talking about…
Throwback Thursday: Harnessing Demons
(First published on my blog, 3rd October 2013) I’m bouncing this post off of a conversation I had at York. A man I met on the first night was telling me about his crime novel. Naturally I won’t divulge details – for one thing that would be unspeakably rude. For another who wants to be…
Dissecting Dragons – the first Guest Episode
I’ve talked about Dissecting Dragons, the speculative fiction podcast that M.E.Vaughan and I produce a bit before. However on Friday the first episode featuring a guest author was released and I feel it’s worth looking at the process in a bit more detail – not least of which because that episode has probably been our…