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The strongest woman in the world!

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Have you ever come across a true story and thought “If I wrote that people would say it was too far fetched to be believable”? I have, probably a couple of times a month. But this one is very close to home, so I thought I’d write about it.

The lady in the picture is called Vulcana, but started life as Miriam Kate Williams. Her father was a preacher and she worked in the local tannery. Maybe lugging wet hides about sharpened up her physique because she started hanging around the boxing saloon i...

Six Sentence Sunday – but not quite

Another Sunday, and what would be another six sentences if I had remembered to register in time! Yes, I forgot but then I’ve been a bit excited.

I’ve had an offer for my pirate novel, On A Lee Shore!

I know – crazy isn’t it! So I’ll give you a bit of that today before I have to pick it apart to edit it and get heartily sick of it. AND a bit of A Fierce Reaping just for the heck of it

First, the usual Six Sentence Sunday pimp. If you haven’t tried it, why not? It’s easy [if you remember]. Goherea...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft is my guest today – for the second time, so the first can’t have been too scary.

Our subject today is her latest release, His Heart’s Obsession, about the difficulties experienced by young gay men when part of an organisation that punishes the expression of their desires by death, and the inventiveness required to establish a satisfying relationship.

Hi, Alex, thanks so much for agreeing to sit in my Comfy Chair again.

Elin: I understand from entries in your blog that His Heart’s O...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Kiran Hunter

My guest today is Kiran Hunter, author of dark GLBT fiction, whose debut novella “Bedevil” has been very well received including by me.

I’m a bit of a scaredy cat so avoid true horror stories but Bedevil is nicely creepy while not having the squick factor that so much horror involves.

Hello, Kiran, and thank you for joining me today.

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Elin: “Bedevil” has a strong paranormal theme. Have you always been interested in the ‘unseen’ threats that dog our footsteps?

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, 193...

I’ve been Bookered

When Sue Roebuck told me she was awarding me the Booker Award I gave her a look like this @_@

I know what Booker award winning books are like – I’ve read a lot of them – and most of them are pretty dampening on the spirits. They’ll be about a man, or a woman, who suffers and angsts in an intellectually literary way for 400 pages and nothing much happens. If something does happen it will be harrowing for the characters involved. A couple of times I have been so brain dead by the time I have rea...

Six Sentence Sunday

Time for the usual again! Six Sundayis a chance for writers to showcase their work and for readers to sample lots of different styles and genres. Click on the link to find a list of websites, then knock yourself out reading all the different bits and pieces on offer. Some will have you coming back week after week, desperate to see what happens next.

As usual my six come from my work in progress A Fierce Reaping, the true [ish] story of a Romano-Celtic warband who challenged the advance of inc...

Next Best Thing blog challenge.

I have been tagged to do this twice by two very sweet ladies – M L Falconer and Jess Schira – so I might even do it twice Once this week and once next.

Here goes:

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1) Answer the 10 questions below.

2) Spread the fun and tag 5 more awesome people to participate.

1. What is the title of your book / WIP?

“Eleventh Hour”

2. Where did the idea of the book come from?

It just moved in one day, scattering its belongings, put its boots up on the table and demanded a fried egg sandwich. I really don’t know w...

Doing anything in September?

Everything is coming together beautifully for UK Meet 2012.

This – our very own British readers/authors/fans convention for LGBQTT fiction – will take place on 15th September at the Mercure Hotel in Brighton.

We are planning a full day of entertainment on Saturday 15th with optional events on Friday evening and Sunday morning. Click on the picture for the website and full details.

The keynote speaker will beJordan Castillo-Price, of Psycop fame though those wonderfully plotted stories are only p...

Six Sentence Sunday

Once again it’s time to click our way around the world with Six Sentence Sunday reading excerpts from authors published, unpublished, self published and writing for the hell of it.

I’m definitely one of the latter. Writing for the fun of it is the name of the game. If anything sensible happens to the story afterwards that’s just the icing on the cake.

Anyhow, to extend the metaphor waaaay beyond the point where I should have given it up as a bad job, here is another bite from one of my unbaked...

Brilliant blog!

There are some blogs that just make me smile. A lot of them belong to writers and reviewers, where one can usually find something informative or entertaining or both, but because I work in a museum I poke around a lot of museum websites too.

One of my favourites is the blog for the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Two of their recent post have amused me greatly.

Click on the picture for an account of how they have added a full sized suit of Iron Man armour to their Steel Gallery!

Hands up everyone who w...