I can’t believe it’s a year since I wrote a review of Carrie Clevenger’s Crooked Fang, but here I am again with my review of the novella-length follow-up, Traitors. Again narrated by sexy vampire bassist Xan Marcelles, Traitors picks up shortly after Crooked Fang. Xan is without a band, and bored in Pinecliffe, Colorado. The […]
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Handknitted Notebook Cover
I’ve talked a bit about the new Twitter community I’ve found, #craftblogclub, which meets on Tuesday evening between 7 and 8pm UK time. Our fabulous founder, Emma Berry, set us all a creative challenge for September – I finished this last week but it’s taken me until now to post! Our challenge was to create […]
#FridayFlash – Alone No More
Image by Foobean01, edits by me Lily arrived by accident one day, a dark haired doll among a box of blonde angels, and Mrs McGarry had never quite known what to do with her. For a time, Lily had shared a shelf with them, and late at night after the shop was closed, she’d tried […]
How to use Google +
Many of us have spent time focussing on blogs, Facebook and Twitter as a means of connecting with others and promoting our work, although recent years have seen an explosion in social media possibilities. We can now promote work through Pinterest, Instagram, Google +, and countless others besides. Despite its initial popularity, I think Google+ […]
#FridayFlash – Caged
Image by johnnyberg. Edits by me. Roll up, roll up, we got the best o’ the worst in ‘ere! Roll up! Yes, you sir, and you madam, come this way ‘n see the weirdest ‘n wonderfullest o’ God’s creations. We got the Bearded Lady, the most beautiful woman in Christendom, with a beard fit for […]
#GuestPost – Grammar for Superheroes
Superheroes are big business at the moment, though they’ve never quite made the leap from comics to novels. Hopefully Tony Noland’s new offering, Verbosity’s Vengeance: A Grammarian Adventure Novel, will make all the difference. I was lucky enough to beta read it for Tony and I can honestly say it’s an awesome read. So it’s […]
