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Saturday Recommendations

I really like my little medieval reader, because he’s the living spit of my character Carlito from a co-written story called Tears of Heaven.

Why do we co-write? If our co-writer loses interest we’re left with 95k [or more] worth of story that’s pretty much unusable. All respect to the writers who bravely go it alone and actually get stuff FINISHED!!

I’m particularly glad that one particular writer got stuff finished. Regency romance is a bit of a cliché in historical romance terms. There’s suc...

If 75,000 of us all put in a quid …

I can’t begin to describe how excited and apprehensive I am to hear that HM Pickle is up for sale – There’s no reserve and only 5 days left in the auction.

Of course it’s not the real one. This is an excellent replica of the 1799 top sail schooner, known at the time as a Bermuda sloop. The original Pickle was 73 feet long with a 20 foot beam, displaced 127 tons and was armed with 8 12 pounder carronades with a crew of approximately 40 to man the guns and trim the sails.

Pickle...

Saturday Recommendation

So many books! I’ve had a brilliant month picking up several terrific titles at the Meet in Bristol and getting a mountain of recommendations to add to my TBR pile. It occurs to me that one recommendation a week isn’t really enough! This week I’ve been bingeing on historicals – my favourite – but I’ve read some excellent Sci Fi as well.

Sometimes I pick up a book with no particular expectations and am surprised and delighted by what I read. Sometimes the title is much anticipated from an auto-...

Well …

I guess I wasn’t really back to business, was I?

There’s just so much going on at the moment and that, combined with a laptop that won’t recognise the internet – oh it accepts that it’s there in theory but in practice doesn’t want to know – means that I have been even scarcer than usual.

What’s going on? LOADS and it’s making me make this kind of face:

However, nobody loves a whinger and since we writers are all about the UNreal lives over which we do have a little control here’s what I’ve been...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Penny Hudson

My guest today is Penny Hudson, an intrepid lady who has just written a book set in the more dangerous areas of the US.

In the UK our wilderness is reasonably safe, we might get midged and people regularly fall off things but there are no predators scarier than us.

So Penny, how did you research the setting for your story? Did you go where there are BEARS?

Thank you so much for inviting me to visit and babble from the comfy chair! All large animals have the potential to be dangerous, not just p...

Back to Business

So now it’s all over, most of us are home and back at work and we’re feeling that horrible post-Meet tristesse that follows the best weekend of the year. I’ve been at home for the week catching up on housework, being a taxi, getting rid of books!!, ditto old paperwork and trying to recover from a whole weekend of unaccustomed company.

I’ll write up a few thoughts about it in a bit but first I have a book to give away!

Every few days throughout May and the beginning of June I featured interview...

New Release – Winter’s Risk by Penny Hudson

Winter’s Risk by Penny Hudson

Blurb:

Veteran park ranger Alexander Doyle is tracking a nuisance bear when he runs across obnoxious environmentalist Martin Ramirez. He and Martin have clashed before, when Martin and the protestors under his leadership ended a plan to expand the network of paved trails and improve accessibility. Given a choice, Alex would rather face the bear.

When the dangerous grizzly attacks them and Martin is gravely wounded, his only chance of survival is Alex’s determinat...

Release Day for Sue Brown!

Elin Gregory:

I’m reading this new release by Sue Brown and loving it!

Originally posted on Michael Mandrake:

Good morning. My writing hero and fave author Sue Brown has a new book out today!

Blurb:

Dan had been Jesse’s partner for many years, and always there for Jesse on his return from difficult assignments. However, after breaking his promise not to leave again, Jesse learns to his cost that Dan can be pushed too far. When he returns home, broken in body and spirit, Jesse finds his house empty...

New release

Bollocks! out today.

That’s not an instruction, by the way. Not a reference to some exhibitionistic gent giving his danglies an airing. No, this refers to the very British anthology of short stories from Wayward Ink Publishing – Bollocks!

Here’s the cover and blurb:

Bollocks as a word is a little naughty. It’s a little cheeky. It’s a little rude.

And it’s the tongue-in-cheek theme for this collection of short stories celebrating all things English.

You’ll discover a bonk is not a typo for somewh...

Not Quite Shakespeare – Sue Brown

So this is my last interview with a contributor to the Not Quite Shakespeare anthology from Dreamspinner Press. I’m really going to miss all these marvellous guests and the terrific variety of excerpts I’ve enjoyed reading.

The book is available NOW from Dreamspinner – just click on that rather lovely cover to go to the page. As promised I have bought two copies – one for me and one for a commenter to one of the interviews. Please comment to this interview or any of the others for a chance to...