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October 31, 2012
Happy Halloween
Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, or Samhain marks the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. Traditionally its the time when the veil between worlds weakens, allowing spirits and creatures of the otherworld to creep through into our own. It is a time when demons, imps and faeries prowl the earth, when the dead whisper [...]
October 22, 2012
Writing Process: Beginning
Once upon a time a twitter friend asked me to blog about my process. And I went… err… okay… Because, seriously, I don’t really think much about process. I have these crazy ideas and I write them down. Sometimes they aren’t ready to be turned into full stories, sometimes they are part of other stories [...]
October 19, 2012
Authors Against Bullying – 19th October
Today, I’m taking part in Authors Against Bullying (#AuthorsAgainstBullying), having seen Mandy M. Roth talking about it on Twitter. The following post is about my experiences and how I got past them. The post may contain some triggerish things. Just to warn you. Many years later, when I described this to some friends at a [...]
October 9, 2012
Octocon this weekend
This weekend is Octocon weekend! The full timetable is here. And general details here. Liz Williams is GOH and a host of wonderful guests including C.E. Murphy, Celine Kiernan, Oisín McGann, Michael Carroll and me! This is what I’ll be up to: (busy busy busy) Saturday 11am Room 101 – putting away all those SFFH [...]
October 5, 2012
Buy a book
I’ve had a couple of tweets about this, and as I’ve bought a book I’m going to suggest you do too. Guys Lit Wire: Budget Cuts in DC Schools Mean We Step Up to Help Ballou SR High. They clearly have an awesome librarian, and awesome taste in books! *ahem* So go on, one book. [...]
October 3, 2012
Titancon & the Giant’s Causeway
I’m a little late writing this one up for a number of reasons, but they basically boil down to lots to do and no energy to do it with. Plus finishing my WiP, the Space Opera. Well, now that has gone off to my wonderful critters, I can’t put blogging off any more, can I? [...]
September 21, 2012
Titancon this weekend
This afternoon I’m heading up to Belfast for the kick off of Titancon. Really looking forward to this one. Tonight, as part of Culture Night Belfast, a group of the visiting authors will be reading in McHugh’s Bar, including Ian MacDonald, Peadar Ó Guilín, Leigh Bardugo and myself amongst others. Tomorrow is a full day [...]
September 16, 2012
The Treachery of Beautiful Things booklaunch
What a wonderful night. With photos to prove it… Having spent the two previous days getting apologies from those who couldn’t make it (with perfectly valid reasons of course), with a major concert on in Dublin, the Junior Cert exam results out that day, and traffic chaos, I was expecting no one to make it [...]
September 11, 2012
Out in the wild – Book Launch imminent
The countdown is on to the book launch. My brain has switched into its usual stress management mode – BAKE ALL THE THINGS! Venue: The Gutter Bookshop Date: Wednesday 12th September – 6.30pm until 8pm Free and Everyone welcome. Encouraged even. There will be cake. Just saying. The book will be launched by the wonderful [...]
September 3, 2012
The Loire Valley post
So for the last two weeks we’ve been in the sunny Loire Valley in France, visiting Chateaux (only slightly for research purposes), a zoo, a Templar Commanderie (only slightly for research purposes). And stairs. So many stairs!!! So here is the by now photo heavy “what I did on my summer holidays” post. I’m splitting [...]
