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October 6, 2015
Darkness & Good: Free Short Story!
A new story is up on the Darkness and Good blog! Stop by and check it out 
October 4, 2015
#ScienceTrivia Black Hole Travel
So it turns out science fiction might have it right: Stephen Hawking things that if a black hole is large enough and is rotating, it might just be possible for a human being to fall through it, rather than being crushed to death. Where to? Not our universe, he suggests, but Somewhere Else.
I’m not personally lining up to volunteer, but it sounds like a useful premise for a story
October 1, 2015
September 24, 2015
September 17, 2015
September 16, 2015
Free Short Story!
A new story is up on the Darkness and Good blog! Stop by and check it out
September 14, 2015
#WeeklyBookPic, The Game!
You might have noticed a couple of posts recently with the tag #WeeklyBookPics. This is going to be a regular feature on the blog, appearing every Friday (my time – Thursday evening in the US I think). Every week will feature a different category, and I’d love it if you’d join in! Take a picture of the book that best fits the category for you* and post a link in the comments and/or reblog/retweet with your picture and the #WeeklyBookPic hashtag! Hopefully it’ll be a fun and easy way to be int...
September 10, 2015
September 6, 2015
7/7/7 Challenge
I’ve been challenged by my writer buddy Beth Overmyer to complete the 7/7/7 challenge. The rules of the 7/7/7 challenge are:
Go to page 7 of your work-in-progress
Scroll down to line #7
Share the next 7 lines of your manuscript in a blog post
Tag 7 other writers (with blogs) to continue the challenge.
I have two WIPs at the moment, so why not, I’ll post seven lines* from each. If you’re following along on Twitter, the relevant tags are #SekritNovel and #FoxBook 
August 26, 2015
An Arting Mum, or a Mumming Artist
Amanda Palmer, multi-media artist extraordinaire (and, though I am loathe to fall into the old ‘identify the woman by her family’ trap, wife of Neil Gaiman) is pregnant. I happened across this article today, in which she defends herself from an eloquent yet, in my opinion, insufferably critical and nosey fan who is concerned essentially that Amanda’s standards are slipping, and will continue to slip when/because she has a baby. Amanda has some lovely things to say, and I think you should defi...
