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#AMA: The Nix List

This week’s question is another by Anabela (who gave me a wheelbarrow-load of really good ones!) Do you have subjects you think you could never write about? Yes! Definitely! Is the short answer—I should think everyone does. And I should think everyone’s answer is very different and probably changes with time. The first one that … Continue reading "#AMA: The Nix List"

Surfacing Again: Otters and anthropomorphism

Morning everyone! Surfacing Again is 99c for the whole of this week and I thought I’d share a bit about otters. This is largely an exercise in basking in cuteness for five hundred words, so please do excuse me. As you know if you’ve met any of my Celtic myth retellings, they are all based … Continue reading "Surfacing Again: Otters and anthropomorphism"

#AMA: Dinner and a Show

Today’s #AMA question comes from Liz Welch: Which of your characters would you most like to have dinner with, and why? And what would they make for you to eat? I thought this would be an easy one to write about and actually I’ve sat here for ages thinking about it. There are so many … Continue reading "#AMA: Dinner and a Show"

Guest Post: Ofelia Grand drops in to talk about The Blood Witch

Hello, everyone! Thank you, Ally, for allowing me to swing by again 🥰 (You’re always welcome!-Ally) A couple of days ago, The Blood Witch was released. It’s a story I wrote for National I am in Control Day. If you don’t know me, I write stories for all those silly days out there – today, … Continue reading "Guest Post: Ofelia Grand drops in to talk about The Blood Witch"

Release Day! Out of Focus

Ta-da! Today is the release day for Out of Focus and here’s a bit about it! Enemies to lovers, a broken wrist, hurt-comfort and pining. A short contemporary gay romance set in a little Welsh theatre. It’s the first of a new series, although it’s not actually a series because that would imply they are … Continue reading "Release Day! Out of Focus"

Read around the Rainbow: What’s your ideal Writing Shack?

This month we’re all writing about our ideal writing shack. I should confess before I begin that I do, actually, have a writing shack at the bottom of my garden. Here’s a picture! It’s got electric and wifi and in theory it means I can retreat away to commune with my muse. However, it’s also … Continue reading "Read around the Rainbow: What’s your ideal Writing Shack?"

#AmReading

This week I’m all about the gay. A contemporary MM, To Take a Quiet Breath by Fearne Hill, a fantasy YA with a queer background romance (or is it NA? I’m never sure, I am neither and it was right in my ballpark, regardless) Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingrande Mora and a fantasy MM with … Continue reading "#AmReading"

Guest Post: K. L. Noone, Demons and Rock-stars!

Today K. L. Noone is here to talk about her new box set, A Demon in Love! Hi there! A.L. Lester was kind enough to let me pop in and share some exciting news with you – so glad to be here, and thank you! (You’re most welcome and any time!) I’m K.L. Noone, and … Continue reading "Guest Post: K. L. Noone, Demons and Rock-stars!"

#AMA: Resonating with your characters

This time’s topic is a question from Fee. Which of your characters, if any, do you resonate with most? I suppose the easiest way to fudge this is to say well there’s something of myself in all my characters and be all highbrow about it. However, there are definitely characters I resonate with more than … Continue reading "#AMA: Resonating with your characters"

Introducing Read Around the Rainbow

So, here’s our New Thing! My Office Writing Buddies ™, Nell Iris and Ofelia Grand and I all run blogs and we like to drop in to each other’s places and make things collaborative. So we have set up a little group of like-minded people who write similar stories and we are all going to … Continue reading "Introducing Read Around the Rainbow"