What I’m Reading Now

I’ve spent the last few days at work and baking, which has been a good way to spend a blustery, rainy half week. I’ve also been curled up under the blankets on the couch with Philippa Greggory’s book The Boleyn Inheritance, which I got by accident from a friend who was returning some books she’d [...]

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Stuff and Things

Well, kids, what can I tell you? I’ve been busy doing, well, stuff.
I discovered a few little niggles with Stormy Bamboo, nothing major, just, you know, a space missing here, words like mmany instead of many, that sort of thing. Got that sorted out with an intensive reading Wednesday-Thursday. Phew
Having gone through that, and returned [...]

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What’s Coming Up

I’m very nearly done with this whole time off thing. It seems ridiculous to take a month long break from doing something that you like to do. I’ve played Little Big Planet to death, I’ve read a few books, and now, there’s no other way around it, I’m downright bored. I want to be back [...]

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On Book Titles

I managed to do a good day’s work at the day job and then also come home and do a good day’s work on the manuscript. Hurrah! So round one of Field Guide edits is done, and I feel like I need to be up front about something here.
Field Guide might become something else. [...]

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Reading

I’ve got to read the entirety of Bamboo and have a look at Field Guide today. I also just got meself a copy of Spook, by Mary Roach (who also wrote the brilliant book Stiff) and Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself. I need to do some reading. Maybe you guys do too.

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Ebook Issues

Hey, y’all. I just saw from Jessereviews (NSFW, FYI, BTW) that there are some buggy copies of the Tenth Man ebook drifting around out there. If you have a copy with a problem, email Prizm and let them know so they can get you a readable copy. Then post below, because the first three people [...]

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Martial Arts Book Recomendation

OK, normally I don’t like martial arts books. I only own a few, because they’re books that resonated with me in some way. Funakoshi’s Karate Do My Way of Life, and Lowery’s Moving Toward Stillness are, essentially, the only two martial arts books I own. I own them because neither of them suck and have [...]

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It remains unbearable. In fact, it’s record breaking. I’m sure I was doing something at work that I failed complete, but I’m not sure what it was. Came home, got in a cold shower, had some water and now feel almost human again. I won’t be writing today. Nothing kills my brain faster than heat, [...]

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How to Get Free Books (Temporarily)

People, have you been down to your local library lately? They have rooms full of books, and movies and music, and they let you take it home for free. They’re also friendly, run by or full of people you probably know from the bookstore, and they’re environmentally friendly (no, really).
Some lovely people tell me they’d [...]

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GenreFail

Good lord. I’ve seen my books in YA (which makes sense), SF (also, makes sense), and, randomly, sports. Now Fictionwise has Tenth Man and Handbook in erotica. Do not my my book for erotica. Or sports. You will be disappointed.

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