Elin Gregory's Blog, page 24
November 21, 2015
I haven’t much else to talk about at the moment. I’ll be ...
I haven’t much else to talk about at the moment. I’ll be back in work on Monday, pretending I want to be there, so for now I’m making the most of my writing time.
I’ve just broken the 35k mark
*bounces carefully in chair*
and here’s an excerpt. Our hero has been to the barber shop and gets more than just a haircut:
These were outside all barber’s shops when I was a kid – a direct allusion to the time when the barber was the only man in town with REALLY sharp clean blades, apart from the bu...
November 20, 2015
New Release – Games of Rome by J P Kenwood
For those of you who, like me, have been gagging for the next episode in the five part Dominus series, Part Two, Games of Rome is available today. For those of you who haven’t tried it yet, but enjoy a highly spiced alternate history setting with masses of incident, brutality and plot, why not give it a go?
Cover by Fiona Fu
Blurb:In this sequel to Dominus, Gaius Fabius Rufus, the victorious general of Rome’s brutal Dacian Wars, finds his loyalties and his affections pulled in different dir...
November 17, 2015
Inspiration
I’ve realised now that I’m writing a series. Not something I expected but I have this notebook called Ideas and I bung every little inkling of a story that I get in there with notes for a title, characters, places, occupations and how they all fit together.
Last week I realised just how many of them are set in or around a small Welsh borders town and satellite villages – they say you should write what you know – and I also realised that it wouldn’t take much effort to fit them together. If Ma...
November 15, 2015
Halfway into Nanowrimo
25294 words!! Whoohoo, over 25k! That’s more in the past 2 weeks than I’ve written in the whole of 2015 so far.
I’m about halfway through the story too and have written the first Big Misunderstanding, a trope I really don’t much like but in this case it’s more of an ethical disagreement than done to make the relationship more iffy.
Anyhow, here’s a sample, all unshod, uncurried and straight off the moor:
It was trowel work, quick and satisfying and he was soon able to see the slabs in their...
November 12, 2015
Today in the Comfy Chair – Ruff Bear
My guest today goes under the name of Ruff Bear in most places though, as so many of us do, he has another name for those boring administrative things that aren’t nearly as much fun as being a creator of truth and beauty. Sadly Facebook doesn’t have much truck with truth and beauty and insists on the workaday name so I’ve invited Bear to my blog so he can talk about the real him for a while.
Welcome Bear.
Can you tell me a little about yourself? For instance, do you have to have a day job as...
November 9, 2015
New Releases – In the Company of Men by Lynn Lorenz
Author Name: Lynn Lorenz
Book Names: The Mercenary’s Tale, Jackson’s Pride, Baymore’s Heir, His Duke’s Gift
Series: In The Company of Men
Publisher: Hartwood Publishing
Cover Artist: Georgia Woods
Books: One through Five
Pages or Words: Varies by book
Categories: Historical, M/M Romance
Release Date: September 2015 – December 2015
Blurbs :
The Mercenary’s Tale – Drake is a mercenary for hire. He values little other than his sword and his skill. Fighting his attraction to the young men he tra...
November 5, 2015
Author Interview – Andrew J Peters
My guest today is Andrew Peters a young man who has a number of very well received books in his backlist including a critically acclaimed series about feline shifters and two fascinating YA books based on the Atlantis myth. I’ve known Andrew for a while now and have been following his publishing career with glee, but I was surprised and touched when he suggested that we did a ‘read and interview ‘ swap in celebration of his latest release, Banished Sons of Poseidon, the second of his Atlantis...
November 4, 2015
Nanowrimo
It’s been a few years since I last tried Nanowrimo. I ‘won’ in 2010 and 2011, though to be honest the only person I was competing with was myself. Writing 50 thousand words in a month is perfectly possible – heck I know a few writers who can manage it in a week – but for me it’s difficult. I’m a slow typist, very easily distractible, am World Class at procrastination, and am very easily convinced that it’s all a waste of time and I should go and sit in the living room while something I don’t...
November 1, 2015
Blog Tour – Behr Facts by Pat Henshaw
Author Name: Pat Henshaw
Book Name: Behr Facts
Series: Foothills Pride
Book: Three
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Pages or Words: 90 pages
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: AngstyG
Blurb:
Big, burly CEO Abe Behr is dismayed to discover someone—possibly a family member—is stealing from Behr Construction, which primarily employs Behr relatives. Abe takes the unprecedented step of hiring an outsider, likeable CPA Jef...
October 28, 2015
New Release – Enigma by Nephy Hart
Book title: Enigma
Author: Nephy Hart
Blurb:
Troubled residents come and go at the Care House where River Caulfield is a caregiver, working towards fulfilling his dream of becoming a nurse. When Silver arrives, a patient found on a roadside near death after suffering terrible abuse, River finds his previous personal detachment is compromised. Seeking to help the mysterious and enigmatic young man locked inside his own mind and memories, River finds his professionalism slipping as Silver begi...
