Alex Beecroft's Blog, page 60
August 12, 2010
Um… yay!
OK so you probably have to be born in the USA to understand the legal shilly-shallying about Prop 8 and gay marriage in California, and what, if anything, it implies for the rest of the country. First marriage was OK, then it wasn't, now it is again but not until next week, and the anti-marriage campaign rumbles on, so goodness knows when there will be a proper firm decision that sticks. Is this one? Can it still be reversed? I don't understand!
Still, it's something to see Prop 8...
August 10, 2010
It's a terminal case
Oh no! I suffer from all of these! Fortunately (or not) I know I'm not alone. In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I'm going to quote it whole:
From "Do you suffer from one of these Writing maladies?" by Nathan Bransford
August 9, 2010
Life before dentistry
Spent today taking my youngest to the dentist. This is pretty much the story of the holidays – non stop ferrying one or the other of them about. Though I can't be hard on her for needing to go to the dentist, poor child!
In writerly news, I have just passed the 100,000 word mark on Under the Hill and I know now that it is going to get finished and polished and become a proper manuscript. There were moments there where I thought this would be the first thing I had abandoned unfinished since ...
August 4, 2010
Saw Inception last night
and I may have a new fandom 
What an excellent film! I do like a film where I come away from it with a head that feels as if it's been stuffed full of new and interesting things to think about.
I'm not a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, and this hasn't really changed that. He's a good actor, but I've yet to like one of his characters, and the only drawback to Inception was that I didn't like him – and he's the hero. A lot of the emotional punch of the thing must come from his attempts to get...
Lovely Shining in the Sun review
Cassie at Joyfully Reviewed has done a lovely review of Shining in the Sun. She says
I wasn't sure how I would feel about Shining in the Sun, given that Alex Beecroft is primarily a historical writer. After reading it, I can only say I hope Ms. Beecroft decides to write another contemporary soon, because Shining in the Sun was excellent!
Which makes me very happy indeed As does her description of the characters and the plot. I'm curious to find that people seem to like Alec more than ...
July 29, 2010
Liquid history
(though rather expensive liquid history at that.) Naval lovers with more money than sense can now buy a bottle of authentic Navy rum, from the Royal Navy's last remaining stocks, held in stone flagons in HM bonded warehouses since "Black Tot Day" in 1970, when the tradition of the daily rum ration for Royal Navy sailors finally came to an end. You too can drink the rum that Nelson drank! Only £600 a bottle 
Still, this site almost makes it seem worth the money: Black Tot Rum If I had £600 ...
July 28, 2010
Good news
I'm happy to say that this week I'm busily doing edits on my dark Fantasy novel, The Witch's Boy. I should have the edits finished by the end of the week, which is one step closer to the book being released in a new edition by Lethe Press, hopefully before the end of this year
I should probably take the chance to say that it's not a Fantasy in the sense of being a m/m Romance in a fantasy setting – it's a Fantasy in the sense of being a story set in a fantasy world without much in the way o...
July 21, 2010
Save 33% on Captain's Surrender
Charlie Cochrane pointed this out to me, as she just got one of those "if you bought this, you might like that" emails from Amazon today. Amazon apparently thinks that she might like to pre-order Captain's Surrender (2nd edition) at a special bargain price:
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Eye of the Storm (Royal Navy, Book 3) by Lee Rowan have also purchased Captain's Surrender by Alex Beecroft. For this reason, you might like to know that...
July 19, 2010
Three wheels on my wagon
and I'm still rolling along!
Or at least, I'm celebrating having passed the 90,000 word mark on UtH. Admittedly it's only 60% done, but things have started rolling a little and developing some momentum, and I'm feeling positive about it again. I'm also getting things clearer in my mind for what needs to be changed in the next edit.
On other positive news, I started a diet and gym routine a fortnight ago and have so far lost half a stone. I clearly had it to spare, because none of my clothes ...
July 16, 2010
Ooh shiny!
Samhain come up trumps yet again. I emailed them only two, maybe three days ago, saying "I have this meet up of m/m writers happening in September. Captain's Surrender is due out in print in August, so I would like to order ten copies to take to the con, if it's possible to get them to me in time."
I didn't get a reply to the email, but I hadn't even begun to think I'd better check to see if they'd received it. There was no way I was expecting a man to come to the door this morning with a ...
