Shining Lights - Part I
I have volunteered to write two posts for the Giftmas Blog Tour 2017, which is raising funds for the Edmonton Food Bank (that’s Edmonton, Canada if you are reading this in the UK). The link to the fundraiser is here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/...
As you might gather from the title, this is the first of the blog posts.
There are two main reasons for me choosing to participate in this tour. One is summarised on day two of the tour and you can read it here: http://www.rhondaparrish.com/giftmas-... along with the reasons other writers on the tour give up their time to good causes. The second reason is the theme of the tour, “Shining a Light”. Basically, I’m a push-over for lights and sparkle and shiny things. I probably should have been hatched as a magpie or a jackdaw.
Those who know me personally may struggle a little with this self proclaimed love of anything shiny and glittery. I’m not a wearer of bling myself. The odd piece of jewelry here or there maybe, but not vast amounts of twinkles. As I sit here typing this, the only thing I’m wearing that could even remotely be called jewelry is my watch and that is very un-shiny with a plain black leather strap. Still, I love to see things glitter (just not on me).
The titles of some of my books may give the game away a little. Out of five, three allude to light and colour: A Darker Moon, Witchlight and Years Ago You Coloured Me. The new novel I’m currently working on also has light in its title and have you seen the cover for the dark fiction anthology I guest-edited this year? As editor I got to pick from the cover designs proffered by the publisher’s super talented Art Director and I ended up bowled over by the light and glitter inherent in this one.
The end of the year is a particularly good time for lovers of shining lights and sparkle. In November, in the UK, there is Bonfire night with its dancing flames and exuberant multi-coloured fireworks. Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, although a movable feast, also tends to fall in October or November. Cue more fireworks. Then there are the chill, cloud-free winter nights when the dark sky is decorated with diamond stars and the silver mirror of the moon, and the combined sparkle of moon and starlight dances over the glittery white hoar frost plus, of course, there is sometimes fresh crystalline snow. Christmas festivities bring seasonal street illuminations, Christmas tree lights, glowing candles and burning fires and more tinsel and glitter than you can wave an ever-so-shiny pantomime fairy wand at. The cat goes wild with the all tinsel and sparkly ribbons and, quite honestly, I envy him.
So there you have it. This is a good time of year to indulge my love of shining lights and glittery colour and now I get to write about it as well. What’s not to like?
I shall be writing more about Christmas lights, as well as swapping posts with the brains and inspiration behind the tour, writer Rhonda Parrish, on 9th December. Please join us then.
In the meantime, should you want to donate, please go to https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/...
If you want to win prizes, please go to https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/dis...
As you might gather from the title, this is the first of the blog posts.
There are two main reasons for me choosing to participate in this tour. One is summarised on day two of the tour and you can read it here: http://www.rhondaparrish.com/giftmas-... along with the reasons other writers on the tour give up their time to good causes. The second reason is the theme of the tour, “Shining a Light”. Basically, I’m a push-over for lights and sparkle and shiny things. I probably should have been hatched as a magpie or a jackdaw.
Those who know me personally may struggle a little with this self proclaimed love of anything shiny and glittery. I’m not a wearer of bling myself. The odd piece of jewelry here or there maybe, but not vast amounts of twinkles. As I sit here typing this, the only thing I’m wearing that could even remotely be called jewelry is my watch and that is very un-shiny with a plain black leather strap. Still, I love to see things glitter (just not on me).
The titles of some of my books may give the game away a little. Out of five, three allude to light and colour: A Darker Moon, Witchlight and Years Ago You Coloured Me. The new novel I’m currently working on also has light in its title and have you seen the cover for the dark fiction anthology I guest-edited this year? As editor I got to pick from the cover designs proffered by the publisher’s super talented Art Director and I ended up bowled over by the light and glitter inherent in this one.
The end of the year is a particularly good time for lovers of shining lights and sparkle. In November, in the UK, there is Bonfire night with its dancing flames and exuberant multi-coloured fireworks. Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, although a movable feast, also tends to fall in October or November. Cue more fireworks. Then there are the chill, cloud-free winter nights when the dark sky is decorated with diamond stars and the silver mirror of the moon, and the combined sparkle of moon and starlight dances over the glittery white hoar frost plus, of course, there is sometimes fresh crystalline snow. Christmas festivities bring seasonal street illuminations, Christmas tree lights, glowing candles and burning fires and more tinsel and glitter than you can wave an ever-so-shiny pantomime fairy wand at. The cat goes wild with the all tinsel and sparkly ribbons and, quite honestly, I envy him.
So there you have it. This is a good time of year to indulge my love of shining lights and glittery colour and now I get to write about it as well. What’s not to like?
I shall be writing more about Christmas lights, as well as swapping posts with the brains and inspiration behind the tour, writer Rhonda Parrish, on 9th December. Please join us then.
In the meantime, should you want to donate, please go to https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/...
If you want to win prizes, please go to https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/dis...
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