Hello, if anyone is still reading ( Read more... )

I've decided to make this journal mostly friends only for the forseeable future. No real reason except that words float about forever on the internet, so I thought I would be a little more private. I will do public entries from time to time, but after a week or so they will become friends-only too ( Read more... )

We're all settled into our new house now and I finally feel able to sit down and post again - we still have stuff in boxes, but I can't unpack everything at once, right ( Read more... )

With the news that Pyr is accepting unagented submissions (full manuscripts no less, and over email), I had a look at some of my older completed books to see if anything was up to scratch.

I almost sent something.

I wrote the email, even attached the document. But I couldn't bring myself to press send.

The book in question was Plague's Perfume, a ( Read more... )

That thing called living
Remember how back in July we'd put an offer in on a house and were thiiiiiiis >< close to buying? And then it all fell through when we got gazumped? Well, two houses later and it looks like we're finally getting to buy. It's more expensive than the first house, but bigger - a three bed semi with garage, on the same road. ( Read more... )

Happy New Year,

I hope everyone had a good break over the holidays.

2009 was a pretty rubbish year in a lot of ways and I'm really quite hopeful that 2010 will be different. We might actually buy a house (we have been in the process of 'buying' one or another since July) and there's the baby to come in June, which still doesn't feel entirely real to ( Read more... )

I'm now 38,000 into my Nanowrimo Rebel Novel. Should be at 40k by now but felt rough last night and had to take a day off - never mind, I'm off work on Friday and plan to finish by end of Sunday if possible. Should be doable. Unfortunately I've just run out of preplanned outline and I'm not really a 'panster' when it comes to writing ( Read more... )

Merlin

Livejournal made me watch Merlin. Yes - it's all your fault. First I noticed it on a few friends memes in various communities. Then people kept talking about Merlin/Arthur and I was intrigued.

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I've decided I can't do NaNo this year (after my previous post on the subject). After all, I still have more than 50k to go on my current WIP (which incidentally was itself a NaNo project two years ago, but since then I've torn it apart and am now starting from scratch again ( Read more... )