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Rules smules. Never say never.

I've never been good at following rules. Someone says I can't do something, I turn round and do it. And I thought, oh the writing world – it's all so creative and freeform, right?

Wrong.

Now admittedly there are somethings that might not be advisable. Writing a bestialty scene in a book aimed at five-year-olds.  You can write it – but I doubt it'll get published.

But there seems to be a surfeit of 'rules' floating around that many writers think are set in stone, when really all they are is...

Excerpt Monday – A Wish for the Dying

Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don't have to be published to participate–just an writer with an excerpt you'd like to share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.

So here we are again. To be honest I struggled to find anything to post! It's been a busy month. However, this is from a WIP on the back burner, A...

My book trailer – at last!

So I finally got round to it! I decided to go for the epic feel – I may yet do a lighter version, as and when I can find some pictures of exploding turnips

Anyway, until I can figure out how to embed the video on my damn blog, here it is.

Not only but also

Not only have I just returned from the most fabulous week away in Marrkech ( staying here, somewhere I can most heartily recommend. It is even better than it looks). Not only did I have a splendid idea for a new book while trekking in the Atlas Mountains. Not only did I suffer an unexplained seizure on the return flight – tests and more tests ensue, but fingers crossed it was just a bug, so no repeat performances – but also!

The blurb editor has once again managed to gather something quite...

Excerpt Monday. And now for something a little different.

Once a month, a bunch of authors get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don't have to be published to participate–just an writer with an excerpt you'd like to share. For more info on how to participate, head over to the Excerpt Monday site! or click on the banner above.

And today, I'm sharing something a little different, for me anyway. It's not fantasy, it's an historical romance, and still very much a work in...

Revisions – the hell and the heaven.

So here I am, knee deep in edits for Love Is My Sin. I'm in heaven and hell at the same time.

The hell is going through the story ( again) and wondering why I thought it was a good idea to sub this. I think there's a whole one page with no red on it. Obviously I'm crap, right? I can't seem to get over my obsession with typing colloquially ( using that instead of who is my biggest problem by the looks of it). A couple of scenes I seem to have lost concentration and passived the whassname out...

Excerpt Monday

Excerpt from Ilfayne's Bane

Hilde pushed the door open a crack. It took a moment before her eyes adjusted to the brighter light, and then she saw a windowless octagonal room with abundant flickering torches and a spiral rune in the centre of the floor. On the rune was a heap of grubby red. She opened the door wider and stared at the ceiling, which flickered with colour and half-seen images.

The heap moaned. It was a man. She put her back to the wall and drew her knife.

He sat up and dislodged...

Love Is My Sin

So, you can see which one won the poll!

Anyway, after a week of chewing my lip so as not to tell anyone before the contract was signed…

I signed!

Expect men falling for unobtainable women (again), a sly priest, a woman prepared to sleep with anyone to get what she wants, the occasional judicious fireball, a poison that makes wizards go *poof* in a puff of smoke, and last but not least a religious war.

Excuse me while I burst with excitement

*burst*