Well it's Rach's birthday soon. Piper Rach is going to be 21, and she has asked for a Star Trek - any one of them - icon.

I simply had to come up with this one, for a woman who loves them all:


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The excellent writer Larner, who has a drabble in the Golden Quill Awards (she's up against the lovely LindaHoyland, whose work is absolutely brilliant), was kind enough to review every chapter of Saruman's Task for me. Looks like my attention-seeking is paying off. Mind you, as much as I thoroughly enjoy the reviews, what I really want is more ( Read more... )

Well I've launched the good ship The Golden Quill Awards, only to discover that I haven't done enough groundwork to get the number of nominations it needed to get going. I need to draw attention to it. So I need to get attention, but how? Well, I've come up with a few ideas, and here they are.1. I want to draw the attention of specific people, to ( Read more... )

Weep, O ye procrastinators! Nominations are now closed for the Golden Quill Awards.

Click here for the links to the polls for the nominated stories.

Here's the web address: http://golden-quills.9f.com/blog/599728/Polls

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Well, I've been busy lately with my writing and other projects. For all the grief of being out of work, it has been good to have the time to get my stuff done.

I've finally finished I Gave Hope To Men, a story about Gilraen after she left Rivendell and went back to her people. It's canon based and gives an idea of the kind of life and culture clash ( Read more... )

I've made a birthday icon for Altevriel, AKA Jon, who posts on my forum, Can We Talk?


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Well it's Jayne's birthday soon and I've made her a couple of icons to celebrate.


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Well, this morning I got a call from the JobCentre people. This morning? It's Saturday! Still, it was encouraging. I'd gone to a Back to Work talk and decided to try to get on a course, and the man told me I'd get a call in a week or so. I got it this morning. They want me to go in for a chat about getting onto a training course so I can increase ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to announce the winner of this month's writing challenge. It was StarSpray with Beyond the Horizon.


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