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October 31, 2012
Vignette: Spectre
It’s easy to fall for a spectre, for the creature you have made in your mind’s eyes, that maps with utter convenience onto the person you have chosen. It is easy to love them, for you made them; you know them so well. The disappointment is crushing as the illusion crashes down. Reality brings them [...]
October 25, 2012
Interview with Nephylim
10 Questions for Nephylim on Hump in the Night My first time hosting an interview here on my blog! I’m very pleased to have a Q&A from Nephylim for the anthology of supernatural m/m stories, Hump in the Night. How long have you been writing for? All my life. I remember when I was a [...]
October 21, 2012
Sunday in my City: 21 October, Honey Hill and Churchill College
Virginia creepers are out and bright red all over Cambridge. Next week I’ll get a picture up of the one outside my office. But for now, a road sign of Honey Hill I took on my way up to Churchill College, the Porter’s Lodge of Churchill, and the Virginia Creeper growing outside the Churchill squash [...]
October 1, 2012
Updates for a new month
October chills. Summer is definitely over, and I chose daily between wearing my leather jacket or my fur (fake of course) edged coat. I do like the coat but it feels excessive sometimes (especially when the sun does decide to show itself). I keep waking up at around 7am on a daily basis, which I [...]
September 9, 2012
Sunday in My City: Magdalene Street
In Cambridge, Magdalene College is pronounced ‘maudlin’. Don’t ask; a punt tour guide explained it to my parents and I recently, but I forget – something about the founder wanting it to sound like his name and this was a way around that rule… At any rate, these pictures are not of the college, but [...]
August 28, 2012
Writing Anxieties: Oh crap, it’s an actual block
This past weekend I had hoped to write. Truly. I had hours to spare, and the story idea I wanted to focus on. The thoughts of that story turned like wheels in my mind. But it didn’t happen. I was blocked. Which, even though there are days where I avoid writing like the plague, was [...]
August 27, 2012
Where you can find me, or talk to me
I was speaking with a friend last weekend about my blog, and she pointed out that even though I have it set up to cross-post to places like Dreamwidth and Goodreads, it might not be obvious that I have it set up to receive comments from just about anywhere it posts to. So, I thought [...]
August 26, 2012
Sunday in My City: Reality Checkpoint
I pass Reality Checkpoint on the days I walk in to work. It’s the lamppost that stands where the paths cross on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge, so named to demarcate where ‘gown’ (the bubble of the world of the university) ends and ‘town’ (the rest of Cambridge) begins. I took these… Wednesday or Thursday this [...]
August 21, 2012
Writing Anxieties: Remembering Why You Do This
Why do I write? I haven’t asked myself that question for a little while now. Or, more to the point, given it serious thought. If you were to ask me directly, I might say something like: “Because I have to.” “Because it’s a compulsion I can’t shake.” “Because the alternative is unthinkable.” Pretty dramatic answers, [...]
New Release! Body & Bow, an erotic novella
Finally I have a chance to sit down and do a proper release post on this. I am exceedingly happy to present, from Forbidden Fiction, Body & Bow. For further details, including content labels (important!) and info for purchasing, please see this page at Forbidden Fiction: Body & Bow I also have a Pinterest Board [...]
