Jan
31
So it turns out I’m doing a signing on February 23rd! Which is a surprise to everyone, not least me, as the book isn’t out until March 1st… however, the guys at Forbidden Planet in London have pre-ordered loads of Minority Council in, and with any luck the last of the bruising will be gone …
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Jan
27
I was thrilled – utterly thrilled – to see this out of the window a few days ago…. It’ll take a while, it’ll be annoying and tricky, but go on… see if you can spot the plot for Urban Magic 6.
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Jan
23
I keep notebooks – a little obsessively, it turns out. When I had to go to Kent for rehearsals last weekend, I got on the train with pen and notebook in hand, only to discover that my notebook was only one page from being finished. That one page didn’t last me to Ebbsfleet, and for …
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Jan
20
Good god, where did January go? We are now, officially, only 6 weeks from the publication of the Minority Council. For lo! The cover has appeared on the blog, and you can read more about the book in the books section… and yes, it’s all getting a bit imminent really. I would celebrate on the …
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Jan
11
Well it took a while. About 3 months in fact. Which is, I realise, about as long as the book took to write! Whoops. If there was ever proof for the hypothesis that two perfect words are harder than 140,000 rambling ones, there it is. But! After a lot of stress and angst, I believe …
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Jan
02
Take… 1 wendigo with a slim grasp of the use of language in the modern world 1 missing goddess and her angry pet dog 1 shaman with dubious job prospects 4 killer builders with only one smile between them 1 vampire 1 necromancer 1 troll 1 banshee 1 pack of super-strength anti-histamines 2 temples 5 …
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Dec
28
Don’t judge a book by its cover, the old adage goes. But let’s face it, we do. Perhaps more interestingly, we – or at least, I – also judge a book by its title. Remarkable how a few words, or sometimes even one, can tell you everything you need to know about a novel. A …
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Dec
13
Finished! Finished finished finished! Finished finished finished finished finished! FINISHED!! (This is not going to be the most edifying post of my career, I hasten to add.) And have I mentioned…. I’ve finished! But what, I hear the strangled cry, have you finished? Urban Magic 4 (the Minority Council) and Urban Magic 5 (title row …
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Dec
04
We’ve all seen it. The little swiggly green line of shame that appears whenever Microsoft Office doesn’t feel comfortable with your syntax. Turning off the ‘check my grammar’ function on my computer is one of the first things I do whenever I get a new word processing program, but I tend to leave spellcheck on, …
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Nov
23
Anne McCaffrey died a few days ago, and this is therefore a very brief blog entry to say farewell to an author who, for much of my youth, was one of my favourites and who still remains a firm presence on my shelves. Her Dragonriders of Pern series was one of those that really got …
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