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Some Assembly Required: A Whedonite's Guide to Characterisation Pt1

So a few people who attended my workshop at the RT Booklovers Convention in May asked me if I'd putup a few notes. These are just that--a few notes--since I'd like to be able to present the workshop again some day, and if you've all drunk the milk then how will I sell the...cow...no, wait, what?

Anyway. Here's the first couple of points:

1. Be a Sketch Artist:
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog

Mansions, margaritas and crocogators

Or: What I Did On My Holidays

So I've been busy for a while, what with the release of Impossible Things and (amongst a whole load of boring real life stuff) organising my trip to New Orleans for the RT Booklovers Convention. Oh, and writing my new book. I keep forgetting about that one.



Me, doing my best impression of the Chosen
at the Impossible Things launch

The book launch went really

The best wedding date

And a happy February to you too!

Now, I've been busy organising things like the book launch for Impossible Things, and various interviews, talks and guest blogs relating to Impossible Things, and freaking out over the fact that its nearly release time for Impossible Things (!!!!!) and so blogging has fallen by the wayside. Also I've been busy attending the wedding of my lovely friend Lisa, who

Impossible Things now available as an ebook!

Yes, that's right! You can now buy Impossible Things as an ebook from Amazon UK, Amazon US, and the iBookstore. Other formats to follow soon.

If you'd rather read it as a paperback, you don't have long to wait: only a month until 7th February!

Impossible Things at Christmas

In the world of Impossible Things, there is no such thing as Christmas. Except that there is, because wherever there's a winter there's a festival in the middle of it, from the Winter Solstice to Saturnalia and on to the our own Christmas, with all its holly, and feeling jolly, and...other things ending in olly.

In Krulland, land of ice and snow and more importantly, my hero Kael, Midwinter is a

Impossible Things teaser trailer 2: Krull the Warlord

Another little teaser. Don't worry, it's less scary than the first one!

Ishtaer's Dream

The first teaser trailer for Impossible Things...

Do you write chick-lit?

Here's a handy flow-chart to help you work it out.


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(normal blogging service will resume soon. I'm just doing edits on Impossible Things, and then I'll be back to tell you all about Impossible Things. Did I mention my book is called Impossible Things?)

Welcome to Ilanium

So, in between edits on Impossible Things, I thought I'd sketch out a map of the world it inhabits. I already had a very crude version on my computer, for reference, but here's a slightly prettier one. To the west, the New Lands where the story begins. To the north, Krulland where our hero dwells. In the centre, the city of Ilanium where our heroine learns...well, I'll let you read it to find out

Mummy porn

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