Tag: Writing

Updatery

I’ve been in book-land for the past few weeks and terribly lax in my updating. So here goes: A lovely review of Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear over at A Fantastical Librarian. Not only am I thrilled that she enjoyed ‘The Bone Chime Song’ but this bit made me go ‘eep’: When I was approached …

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The Next Big Thing… thing

So, Mr Alan Baxter (and then Catherine Knutsson) tagged me in this Next Big Thing thing, and knowing better than to argue with either of them, I’m here to play along. And I’m going to talk about something new! 1) What is the working title of your next book? It’s currently titled The Bone Gardens. I …

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60k…

This book has a name. And now it has 60,000 words. It’s not a real book yet, but it’s starting to look like it might be one. One day. We’re about to enter the final, 3rd act. I like this act. There are two big traumatic events coming up, and they’re just dying to come …

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World building and brain storming

I’m building a new world at the moment and playing with exciting, impossible technologies. Here’s a hint 🙂

On nominations (was om nom nominations…)

This post shouldn’t be so hard to write. I’ve already written and deleted half a dozen poor attempts at humour, all because I find it a bit uncomfortable. So I’m going to be straight about it. Deep breath. “It’s Ditmar time again and I have some eligible work and if you liked that work maybe you could …

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