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Cover Reveal for GUARDIAN, Creepy Hollow #1

[Note: this post may contain an excess of exclamation marks.] Alrighty. Here it is!!!!

So... What do you think?! You're allowed to be honest ;-) Though if you want to say that you hate it, it might be nicer to keep that to yourself! I -- obviously -- am super excited about it!!

Yes, she's meant to have purple eyes and purple in her hair, which I think is super cool. I once died my hair "blackcurrent" (according to the box) but if I was really brave I'd go real purple, like Vi up there (though ...

The Curse of the Kindle

There are so many things that are awesome about the Kindle, and, to be honest, this "curse" I'm thinking of isn't actually a bad thing...

Here it is: It is so easy to buy ebooks that you will keep accumulating more and more, faster than the rate at which you can read, and you'll never get through your "to be read" list!

Yeah, okay, things could be worse. But it just bugs me that there are all these awesome stories waiting there for me and I haven't yet got to reading them!


Currently, this is the...

A Book Trailer for Creepy Hollow!

Yay, yay, yay, a book trailer! Okay, so it doesn't have a whole cast of actors, in fact it's really quite simple (I had limited software, okay). But I like it that way :-)



It's a general trailer for the series as a whole, so it doesn't give any specific story detail. However, if you scroll down, you'll find a blurb for the first story in the series, GUARDIAN.


1. Receive assignment.2. Save a life. 3. Sleep.4. Repeat.
Protecting humans from dangerous magical creatures is all in a day's work for a...

Punctuation Help, Please!

Dearest writer bloggers,

I'd love to hear your expert (or not so expert!) opinion on whether I should put a capital letter after a colon, and whether I should put a comma before the word "too".

The Colon
So, it seems as though sometimes you put a capital letter after a colon, and sometimes you don't. The Online Oxford Dictionary has examples that all have small letters after the colon, but Wikipedia seems to think that this is generally the case with British English, whereas with American Englis...

Insecure Writer's Support Group: Being Brave

This year I am joining the Insecure Writer's Support Group! Thanks, Alex J. Cavanaugh, for getting it started. Now I just have to remember when it's the first Wednesday of each month...







Here's the thing I'm most insecure about right now (and have been for some time, and will be for some more time to come!): putting my writing out there for the world to see.

A few months ago, I decided to publish a series of stories entitled Creepy Hollow, and those of you who hang around this blog sometime may ...

Bring it on, 2012!

This is the year I see my name in print! Ahem, digital print, at least. Which, as anyone owning a Kindle/[insert your e-reader name here] knows, is an awesome kind of print :-)

Creepy Hollow begins in March this year.

I'm also looking forward to Rachael Harrie's Fourth Writers' Platform-Building Campaign, which runs from February 6th to April 31st.

And, of course, the great Blogging from A to Z Challenge, which runs during the month of April.

And many other things to look forward to this year, I'...

Bite Size Book Reviews (1)

Title: Watching Willow Watts
Author: Talli Roland

This may sound weird, but the first thing I enjoyed about this story was the fact that it was written in British English (same as South African)! Silly, I know, but I read so much American English, that it was refreshing to read the British version of words :-)

What I remember most from reading THE STORY BOOK, by David Baboulene, is knowledge gaps - and Talli does this excellently. She jumps from one character's perspective to another, so that yo...

Swaziland Summer Holiday

The week before Christmas, I went to Swaziland with my family. We stayed at the Ezulwini Sun, which did well in living up to its name - the sun shone brightly and perfectly every single day :-)

Here are some of the more, ah, quirky photos!

Found inside a rather strange art gallery.

Multiple choice... Can I pick the time then?

One of the local hair salons.

Anyone read The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency?!

Is it normal to put your second-hand clothing and your herbal chemist in one shop?

Monkey...