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For some reason it won’t let me set a subject line this week!

What’s Up?

So, I’ve got some irons in the fire this year. I’ve mentioned this before, because I’m quite excited about it. I’ve never really had ‘irons’ before. OK, calling them ‘irons’ might be a little extravegant, but still…

Anyhow. Awesome news!

Skin and Bone, the second Digging Up Bones novel, is going to be available in audio. I cannot tell you how excited I am. I was impressed by his first audition, but the extract only had one of the MCs in it. So I as asked to hear one with both Javi and Cloister, and I was blown away by his interpretation of them.

So I am deleted to announce that the wonderful Garrett Kiesel is going to be recording Skin and Bone and I hope you all love his Javi and Cloister as much as I do! He’s really awesome! I will keep you updated on news as things progress.

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Books!

That wasn’t quite an iron, but still pretty cool! :D

You can do audio episodes on here too. I’ll have to try it sometimes, although how much anyone would be able to understand of it!

Pupdate of the Week

Jax and my mum on the trails at Mount Stewart. Look how happy they are :D

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I mean, that squirrel is HUGE if you think it’s life size. Poor pupper.

WeRateDogs® @dog_ratesThis is Stella. She just unlocked a new fear: inside squirrels. Not sure why nobody else is concerned. 13/10 someone hold her

February 1st 2021

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Speaking of audio! Check out Rhys Ford’s Bound as narrated by the talented Greg Tremblay.

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Listen Now

How cool are these? Nature is AWESOME. OK, if I used anything like this in one of my worlds I’d have something creepy and wrong crawl out of it, but in the real world it’s just an awesome little bee!

Living Morganism 🌱 @ok_girlfriendUnlike other bee species, Osmia avosetta is a solitary bee that doesn't have a colony to help it raise its young. So instead of building hives, they craft tiny 'cocoons' from flower petals to protect their eggs. Each cocoon holds just one egg

January 31st 2021

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OK, coffee addiction is considered de rigeur for authors these days. Imagine if rotten apples had caught on instead? Instead of queues of us at Starbucks durng literary conventions, we’d all be down the grocery store fighting over the squishiest apple.

The most unusual writing rituals of famous authors

All artists have their eccentrics, and authors are no different. Here, from hanging upside down to sniffing rotten apples, are some of the most unusual habits famous names have used to get the juices flowing...

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In November, following the publication of his presidential memoir, it emerged that Barack Obama wrote the entire 760-page tome by hand, on yellow legal notepaper with a pen. A pen!?

"I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth a gloss and lends half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness,” he wrote in A Promised Land.

This was the first draft. They said it was better if she didn’t smile quite so much.

Shannon Stamey @ShannonStameyWIP. Updated detail shots. Pencil on tea-stained paper.

December 26th 2020

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I love London ephemera. As a city it was almost designed for Urban Fantasy. It’s got a little creepy something for everyone! OK, this is just interesting rather than creepy…but still fun.

This looks cool if there’s anyone out there that fancies it :D

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