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July 6, 2012
Game of Thrones (series 1): A Review
I didn’t get to watch this when it was first out as I don’t have sky TV but I picked up the blur-ray on an off chance it might be good. It was recommended to me so it wasn’t entirely pot luck and I do often like a good fantasy plot, on top of that [...]
July 3, 2012
Mixing things up a bit
I always find new ideas a bit distracting but I got very very distracted by a blog post here about mixing genre’s and general book mash-ups. I noticed in the list of genres for insipartion my old favourite, steampunk, and remembered that a while ago I had told myself I should really see if I [...]
July 2, 2012
Upcoming events
There’s two events happening that I’d like to draw people’s attention too. The first is happening this evening at Roseberry Road arts studio in Bath, just off lower Bristol Road, and is a literary and performance night. There’s going to be lots of writerly based activities and readings as well as some easy listening jazz [...]
July 1, 2012
The Plan: July 12
Last Month I’ve only actually been at work for about 12 working days of this month thanks to the jubilee weekend health issues and my yearly summer holiday so I’m not going to bother with a bullet list for my recent activities. I’ve managed to get Chains of Freedom completely finished and that should be [...]
June 30, 2012
Elsa’s Reality: A Review
As I mentioned before on my blog this is the debut ebook from a fellow author with the same publishing company as me, red feather writing. The book is a young adult fantasy with a hint of paranormal and is about a little girl called Elsa and the weird and slightly scary things happening in [...]
June 27, 2012
Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 18
The smile on Anya’s face gave away her feelings as she lay on her back in Hitchin’s lab. Sherdan ran his hand over her exposed stomach. The sound in her ears was the heart beat of their little baby. Hitchin held the other end of the stethoscope against her stomach. When she’d given Hitchin back [...]
June 24, 2012
Snow White and the Huntsman: A Review
Fairytale remakes seems to be in fashion in Hollywood at the moment but this one seems to have benefited from the remake. The story wasn’t exactly the same but that was a good thing. The film could have risked being completely predictable but it wasn’t actually that bad. There were inevitably going to be the [...]
June 21, 2012
How to write good dialogue
I’ve already done a blog on this topic and linked to Konrath’s blog with his tips. I’d like to discuss it a bit more but since I’m going on holiday in a few days I want to keep it short so one way to help yourself writing good dialogue is to watch and read things [...]
June 18, 2012
Sanctuary, Millenium’s children: A Review
This books by Austin Caroll was awesome, pure awesome, one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I totally loved the characters in this book and the way they handled things. Sometimes YA books where the characters are younger than the author don’t feel quite right but I really believed the ages [...]
June 15, 2012
Sherdan’s Prophecy: Chapter 17
Sherdan thought about Anya’s test results while he was being driven to London for his interview. If it wasn’t the enzyme that had given her an ability then there was a possibility someone else had done something similar. The only other explanation, was the existence of some higher being or force; a force that wished [...]
