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October 13, 2013
Happy Bartolome Day
The Oatmeal lets slip the gory and disgusting truth about the man who accidentally wrecked a ship in a place he had no intention of going, subsequently destroying, decimating, dismembering, disenfranchising and all kinds of horrible things, not all of which begin with D, a whole race of people.
October 11, 2013
Saturday Recs [scroll down for Slippery When Wet blog hop]
Welcome back for another recommendation from my fairly recently read pile. If you clink the S’n'S graphic you’ll be taken to the list of Seductive Studs and Sirens authors to read the samples of their fiction.
Last week we had a story very firmly rooted in reality – The General and the Horselord by Sarah Black – this week I’m going on an incredible flight of fantasy with Mongrel by K Z Snow. Just look at that cover!
As soon as you hear a term like Hunzinger’s Mechanical Circus you know you’re s...
October 10, 2013
Slippery When Wet Blog Hop
Happy Friday folks. And time for Hennessee Andrews’s “Slippery When Wet” Blog Hop. Just click on that picture – yes that one up there – and you’ll be taken to a nice long list of all the authors participating.
I signed up because I liked the title – slippery when wet. It means so many different things to so many people but I should imagine that the majority of people are imagining something like this:
Alternatively there’s a whole generation for whom the term conjures up an image of Colin Firt...
October 8, 2013
Humpday Hook
Happy Wednesday and welcome to another session of Humpday Hooks!
Humpday Hook is a weekly blog hop where authors get together to post excerpts of their work. Just click on the picture to be taken to the Master List! You should find something there to enjoy.
Alternatively stay here for a bit and read my excerpt first.
It’s another bit of my untitled unfinished heterosexual Regency romance [though all bets are off if I ever resume it.] Aubrey has written to Sir Patrick, or maybe it should be Lord...
October 5, 2013
Saturday Recs
It’s the weekend and what better way is there to relax than with a good book? Or with snippets of several plus one completely arbitrary but sincere recommendation. That’s what you get for following the Seductive Studs and Sirens weekly blog hop, where a small select group of authors get together to share elements of their latest work. And I tell you about something I’ve read.
Last week I was recommending a gay lit title – You are Here by Chris Delyani, this week I’m a bit closer to M/M romance...
October 2, 2013
Guest Post – Indra Vaughn
My guest today is Indra Vaughan, visiting to celebrate a new release – Halcyon Hush from Torquere – and to make me blush a bit – you’ll see why.
Welcome, Indra.
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I just want to start out with a little bit of a fan-girl moment, because I can’t quite believe I’m on Elin Gregory’s blog. Kit from On A Lee Shore is one of my all time favorite characters. (I think I have a blog post somewhere which is basically an ode to Kit. Ahem.) I’m in a little group of friends who share the same taste in books a...
October 1, 2013
Hump Day Hook
Happy Wednesday.
Hump Day Hook is a weekly blog hop where authors post bits of published works or WIPs that excite the interest of the reader and make them want to carry on reading. Or at least that’s the idea. I generally post right up to the punchline, because that’s the way I roll, and I can never really bring myself to believe that readers will be bothered to come back next week to see what happened. Just click on the picture to go to the blog with a list of participants.
Anyhow – as per us...
Whoa neddy!
I’ve just heard something astonishing.
On a Lee Shore is a finalist in the LGBT Historical category of the Rainbow Awards!
And in such amazing company too. I’ve read two of the other four – Promises Made Under Fire by Charlie Cochrane and The Left Hand of Calvus by L A Witt – and both filled me with the deep satisfaction you get when reading a superb story well told.
To say I’m honoured doesn’t really begin to cover it.
Today in the Comfy Chair – Charlie Cochrane
Charlie is a repeat offender as far as the comfy chair is concerned. So much so that the usual list of questions no longer apply and she has her own coffee mug on the dresser! White, no sugar, right?
She is here today to answer some questions about her new release, the latest in the wildly popular Cambridge Fellows series, Lessons for a Suspicious Mind.
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Elin : In this episode of Jonty and Orlando’s adventures they are asked to investigate not one but two suicides. Suicide is a very difficult...
September 30, 2013
Grammarly
I’m one of the , probably many millions of, people offered a free month of Grammarly Premium, the online proofreader, in return for blogging about it.
My only previous experience of Grammarly was to read the self published novel of a friend who claimed that Grammarly was all she needed to turn out a professional quality product and she didn’t know why people bothered with that whole tedious submission, content edit, copy edit, proof reading business. After reading the novel, I very gently tri...
