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May 24, 2018
New[ish] Release – Pack Up Your Troubles by Charlie Cochrane
By Charlie Cochrane
Blurb:
THIS GROUND WHICH WAS SECURED AT GREAT EXPENSE
An officer thinks he finds love in the trenches, but is it really waiting for him on the home front?
HALLOWED GROUND
A doctor and an army chaplain spend the night in a foxhole and discover there’s hope even in the darkest situations
MUSIC IN THE MIDST OF DESOLATION
And an old soldier discovers that there are romantic problems to solve even after you’ve cashed in your chips.
Available from Amazo...
May 20, 2018
New Release – Returning to the Land of Morning Calm by Hans Hirschi
Release date: May 21, 2018
Series: N/A, stand-alone
Genre(s): Contemporary fiction, LGBT, Feel-good
Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing, UK
Pages: Approx. 200
Blurb:
Martin is eighty-four years old, a Korean War veteran, living quietly in a retirement home in upstate New York. His days are ruled by the routine of the staff. In his thoughts and dreams, Martin often returns to the Seoul of his youth, and the lost true love of his life.
Two close friend...
May 15, 2018
Today in the Comfy Chair – Dal Maclean
My guest today not only wrote one of my top reads in the past 12 months but also, I’m happy to say, is a jolly good person to have a giggle with via Messenger! But that doesn’t tell you a whole lot about her so here is her author Blurb:
“Dal Maclean comes from Scotland. Her background is in journalism, and she has an undying passion for history, the more gossipy and scandalous the better. Dal has lived in Asia and worked all over the world, but home is now the UK.
She dislikes the Tragic Gay...
May 5, 2018
Saturday Recommendations
I used to enjoy doing this so I think I’ll start doing it again – though not necessarily on every Saturday.
What I’ve read:
Two books telling one excellent story. Sort of Dune meets Firefly plus some really pointed references to historical abuse of workers that made me cringe with anticipation because I’d recently read some articles on the US Coal Wars in the early 1900s. There are some LGBT relationships but the most important thing is friendship, mutual trust, and cooperation. At th...
April 28, 2018
Snippet!
I’m ping ponging between tasks today, because I have a child unexpectedly returning to the nest for a couple of days before he goes to see a friend. I’ll have to feed him up so he can build up his strength before the two of them spend 72 hours straight playing Skyrim, or whatever the cool kids are playing now.
Anyhow, though he’s most welcome, my mind isn’t really on my work. But I am trying so, to show good faith, here’s a little bit of Midnight Flit:
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April 20, 2018
Communication
They say communication is key but all too often in daily life our communication skills let us down. We can’t find quite the right words to express ourselves, or we find we’re talking at cross purposes with the other person or the emotional barometer of the other person suggests that we’d best go along with what they want because, at that moment, their needs are more important than ours. Language doesn’t help. I remember my feeling of the world turned on its ear when I discovered that in Am...
March 28, 2018
Thoughts
I’ve been having a whole load of very confusing thoughts lately. Part of it is due to recent terrible upsets amongst to group of people I see most frequently online, some of whom are friends and most cherished. Part of it is due to my own rather uncomfortable mental health issues, where on any given day I yoyo back and forth between the numb apathy of depression and the hyper-awareness of anxiety. Neither are helpful when trying to create entertaining fiction.
This could be why I’ve written m...
February 4, 2018
Snippet!!
It’s a while since I’ve posted one of these.
I’m just finished a rewrite of The Lunar Imperative, which first appeared in the Foolish Encounters anthology, making it a LOT longer and adding back in all the fun world-building stuff I thought people wouldn’t want. That’s with my betas and there will be snippets of that another time.
But for now I’m trying to get my head back into the 1930s with Miles Siward and his mother, Emily, wife of the British Ambassador to Bucharest. Miles is visiting...
December 17, 2017
The Rainbow Advent Calendar – day 18
I hope you have been enjoying the stories in this great event as much as I have. You really don’t want to miss any so it’s a good idea to join the Facebook Group where links to each new story will be posted.
There are so many more than 24 authors each posting a little something to thank the readers who have done so much to support them over the past year. Never be shy about letting an author know what you enjoyed about their work – they might write more of it!
Today it’s my turn to provide a...
December 5, 2017
Today in The Comfy Chair – David C Dawson
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I’m delighted today to be playing host to the lovely David Dawson whose latest release – The Deadly Lies – is now available!
This is the second in the Dominic Delingpole mysteries, the first of which, The Necessary Deaths, is a cracking read.
Welcome, David.
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When you aren’t writing, is there any other creative activity you enjoy? Have you ever written about it?
I sing bass with the London Gay Men’s Chorus. You could say some of my dance moves are pretty creative! I’ve been with them...
