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July 28, 2012
Olympics
Well, London, that was a delightful opening ceremony. LOVED the music montage and the Cauldron, they were absolutely great. The cauldron was really stunning.
As someone who’s lived through a home-town Olympics, all I can say is enjoy it as much as you can. I have fond memories of the Sydney Olympics: watching Andrew Hoy leap off his horse after his gold medal ride in the dressage, clearly absolutely delighted, and watching him race up into the stands to greet his family and friends; the tiny g...
July 4, 2012
Good news
I am pleased to announce that Dreamspinner have accepted my novel Metal Heart for publication early next year, in January/February. That’s a few months away still, so the excerpts I posted here and here will have to tide you over until then. This novel is close to my heart for several reasons, which I’ll talk about closer to the publication date, but for now just know that I am delighted that it’s seeing the light of day.
In other book news, Elisa Rolle has given Equilibrium a really nice revi...
June 19, 2012
Lucky seven meme
Here are the rules: The ‘rules’ are: Go to page 7 or 77 of your latest work. Read down to the seventh line and then post online the next seven lines or sentences. Then head off and tag seven more writers.
This is from page 77 of Metal Heart, which is at this present moment still on submission:
Covered in sand, no taxi would pick them up, so they walked, getting directions from keen early morning beach goers and joggers. They got back to the hotel at 9am to find a furious Dean w...
June 9, 2012
Dessert question
Internets! I have a question for you.
If you were a pastry chef (and so could make any sweet thing you liked) making a dessert for a person who you were hoping to get into bed (preferably as soon as dessert is finished), what would you make?
If it matters, this is the first time you’re cooking for this person, and they’ve told you that they’ll eat anything.
Enquiring minds want to know. I have my own thoughts on this, but it never hurts to get a second opinion.
May 27, 2012
Sales!
Various places where you can find my books are having sales at the moment:
JMS Books are having 30% off ebooks all weekend (Reasonable Force).
At Torquere Press you can get 15% off your order all weekend with the code memday2012 (Rust Red: Galvanized)
Dreamspinner are entering the final week of their 5th birthday celebration, and that means that you can get my DSP books for 20% off until May 31st (Equilibrium paperback and ebook, and Tinsel and Dust)
Happy shopping!
May 21, 2012
Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Hello blogland, long time no speak! While I admit that I am a terrible blogger under usual circumstances, I am not generally this bad. But when your book suddenly decides that it wants to be 20,000 words longer than you originally thought, and you’d like to get it done before the end of the century, there’s no choice but to put your head down, your bum up, and not stop until the very last word is written. I’m thrilled to be able to report that the last word was written last night, and it has...
March 25, 2012
Brief Encounters reviews Reasonable Force
I'm delighted to report that Cole from Brief Encounters Reviews gave Reasonable Force an A- rating. He says:
…what I most enjoyed about this story is the fact that I'm not given the answers. It's not great, vast plotline. It's a pretty simple short story actually. But that style of storytelling lets the reader's imagination become more active in the story. I like a story that is different to me than anyone else, and I have a feeling that that might be true with this story…I'd recommend this...
March 14, 2012
Reasonable Force at ARe, Amazon and Smashwords
The title of this post says it all, really – Reasonable Force is now available at various distributors. You can pick it up at All Romance ebooks, Amazon, or Smashwords.
March 3, 2012
Reasonable Force at JMS Books
I am pleased to be able to announce that Reasonable Force is available for sale at JMS Books. You can find it here, in various ebook formats and also on sale for 40% off, so if that's not a bargain, I don't know what is.
Please note that this story was previously published in the Torquere Press anthology The Care and Feeding of Demons, and that this version is not significantly different from that version. For owners of the anthology, there's no pressing need to buy it again, unless you want i...
February 22, 2012
WIP snippet
I have disappeared off the face of the internet lately, because I'm really trying to finish my current novel in progress. It has a title, but I'm not revealing it publicly yet because titles are generally really difficult for me, and I'm superstitious about having one before the book is finished. But I can tell you what it's about: the rise and fall of the guitarist and singer in a Sydney rock band in the 90s, and what happens between them when the band reunites 16 years later to help out an ...
