A.M. Offenwanger's Blog, page 48
March 23, 2016
March 16, 2016
March 7, 2016
Camp NaNo, Once Again
Just three-and-a-half more weeks, and April’s Camp NaNoWriMo will be upon us! I just went and built us a cabin, so if you want to join the Word Count Slayers (that’s our cabin name. I know, right?) hop on over to the Camp NaNoWriMo site, make yourself a profile (if you haven’t got one yet), create a project, then let me know your username (either in the comments, or shoot me a mail at amo@amovitam.ca), and I’ll invite you.
The nice thing about Camp NaNoWriMo is that the word count on it is fl...
March 6, 2016
Jet Lag, Horse Stairs, Ulrich and Eberhard
Inner Courtyard, Altes Schloss, Stuttgart
It’s 4:00 AM, and I’m sitting in the living room catching up on my emails. Well, blog posts written by my bloggy friends, rather, while I was in the Fatherland with not-as-much time and internet access as I usually have. So here I am, making my way through about forty mails that accumulated over the last few days. Hello, jet lag, my old friend… (If my comment or “Like” on your blog post arrived kind of late, that’s why.)
I mostly went for a family vis...
March 3, 2016
Travel Reads
Greetings from Frankfurt Airport. I’m on my way back from a Blitzvisit to the Fatherland for a family birthday.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I suffer from a condition called Büchermangelangst, a phobia of a lack of books. It’s chronic and incurable, and can only be alleviated by carrying an adequate supply of reading material. So I bought myself a couple of new ones; one of them is a murder mystery set at the Frankfurt airport. Should be good motivation to get out of here.
See you soon!
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February 22, 2016
Chess, and Some Very Special Pieces
So, you know that Checkmate just came out, right? Of course you do, and you’ve already downloaded your ebook copy. And because you have, you know that it prominently features a chess game.
Oh, you mean you hadn’t got that far in reading the book yet? Sorry, didn’t mean to give any spoilers! But honestly, I’m not giving anything away by telling you that. I’m sure that even without getting to the part about the game, you’ve figured out that the story has something to do with chess – because you...
Oak and Mist – Download Free For a Limited Time!
Shout-out of a new writer friend’s book freebie! I just read Oak and Mist, and it’s great. Go get yourself a copy!
Oak and Mist, the first book in my Ambeth series, is free on Amazon from now until February 25th (e-book version only).
‘The end of everything? Great, no pressure then.’
Alma Bevan didn’t mean to go on a quest. But when she disappears between two trees at her local park and reappears in Ambeth, she finds they’ve been expecting her.
So now she has to find a lost...
February 19, 2016
CHECKMATE!
Aaaaaand – HERE IT IS!! Please welcome:
Toddle on over to the page, where you can choose from a profusion of links from which to get your very own e- or p-(paper)copy of the newest instalment of the Septimus Series.
Here’s what you’ll find under the snazzy cover:
Rhitha’s life is miserable – but then she meets Bina.
Rhitha’s sister has been bullying her all her life, for no reason that Rhitha can see. But when they move to Ruph, there is a new friend in Rhitha’s life: with the hel...
February 15, 2016
Changing the Label
I’ve been re-reading Seventh Son and Cat and Mouse, the print copies, no less. It’s been long enough that I can look at them with fresh eyes and a little bit of distance. (In the case of Checkmate, I’ve gone over it so many times in the last months that I have it practically memorised, and you know what they say about familiarity and contempt. I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that these characters, whom I’ve lived with for more than a year now, are still total strangers to...
