M.J. Scott's Blog, page 18

Music fix – Hozier (with bonus Sergei Polunin)

I’m partial to a bit of ballet. And a bit of good music. Sometimes people ask me why I like the ballet…in the future I’ll just point them to this.

Phew. Fans self.

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May writing update

Not that much to report. I am working away on Playing Fast (though the sudden winter before it’s really winter weather in Melbourne makes me more inclined toward hibernation than writing). Lawless in Leather came out a week ago and The Shattered Court the week before that. Two more books out in the world.

So now, all I have to do is a lot of staring at this and make words happen! Good winter activity if ever there was one.

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Out and about – The Script

I went off to see The Script the other week. They were really good live and the support act, Colton Avery, was great too (hard gig to do a support act with solo guitar but he won the crowd over). I usually don’t try to take too many pictures at concerts because mobile phones don’t tend to do that well in low light. But The Script had some really interesting lighting effects (complete with lasers) so I had to try to get some shots of those. Being a rock photographer would be a fun job!

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Art every day

I’m doing a draw/paint something every day challenge in May. Each day there’s a prompt and you draw or paint whatever is around that meets that prompt.  So a few random pages from the month so far…

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Geeky TV – Arrow

It’s a pretty good time to be a SFF fan TV wise. There were some long lean years in there (and Aus TV programmers still can’t program SFF to save themselves but thankfully catch up TV and iTunes and Netflix fixes some of that) but right now, thanks to the popularity of superhero movies and things like Twilight, it seems like there’s a new geeky show every other week. (Yay).

One of my faves recently (there are many so there will be more blogs) has been Arrow. Now, it’s not a perfect show and it took me a while to get into it because Oliver Queen is very emo at the start but I’m glad I’ve persevered (I’ve only watched series 1 and 2 so far so no s3 spoilers please).

It’s not the deepest show in the world but there’s lots of good twisty back story and plot. I started to get invested when Felicity appeared because who doesn’t love a feisty IT genius girl who rocks glasses and a bright lip?

Felicity and Ollie have great chemistry (Team Ollicity all the way) which is kind of a problem for the writers because they have better chemistry than any of the other women he’s meant to fall for. Hopefully they will eventually bow to the invevitable and get them together (there were hints in S2 so don’t break my heart with s3 spoilers if it all goes pear shaped!). She’s a good example of a secondary character who demands a bigger role. Which often happens to writers too.

And of course, the other undeniably appealing factor about the show is that Oliver seems to lose his shirt quite often. As Stephen Amell looks like this, no one is complaining. (Hey, I have to study hot actors for hero inspiration…I’m working here).

I’m looking forward to S3 once I’ve worked my way through some backlog on other shows. Too much good TV is a nice problem to have. So, any Arrow fans in the house?

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Today’s the day! Lawless in Leather is out.

Hope you enjoy Mal and Raina as much as I did. Book number ten for me which is very weird to think about but I’ll take it. Buy here!

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So close…

One more sleep until it’s back to this beautiful city and my New York Saints. At least, in book form. Have to wait until July until I actually go back to New York!

Last chance to pre-order and get your hands on Mal and Raina as soon as possible. Links here.

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Sunday snippet – One final taste of Lawless in Leather

Lawless in Leather is out on Tuesday! One last chance to pre-order here.

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A Lawless song

Once he gets his act together, this is pretty much the song that Mal hears when he sees Raina.

Pre-order links here.

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And the man needs to meet his match

In this case, Raina Easton, is the perfect gal to shake Mal’s world up in the best way possible. I shall confess, these two were a lot of fun to write!

Still time to pre-order Mal and Raina. Links here.

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