Half a book
I’ve been too busy writing (my book) to write (my blog). Some days there are just no words left, especially seeing as how I’m working on an academic paper at the same time. Still, that’s no excuse. I...
View ArticleA most satisfying weekend
First of all, WTF has happened to my blog roll? It’s disappeared. Seems to be some kind of WordPress issue… please don’t be offended if your link is missing. I am working to restore normal...
View ArticleAn uneasy traveller
I have a love hate relationship with travel. On the one hand, I love seeing new things and soaking up new places. I love the way travelling makes you think and feel differently, if only for a little...
View ArticleA Great Convergence
Original rood painting/relief at St Mary's, BreamoreI love this stage of a book so much, when isolated ideas start to attract each other like magnets, and the space between them gets churned up with...
View ArticleAll shall love me and despair!!!!!!!!!
When it’s all working, writing a book is the Best. Fun. Ever. You know that feeling when you’re in the middle of reading a really good book, and you’re thinking you’re going to diiiiiiiiiiie when it...
View ArticleWheel of Fortune
I have been sitting on some pretty big news for the last few months, and I’m only just now at liberty to talk about it. It seems that my alter ego, Kimberley Freeman, has attracted some serious...
View ArticleThe Year of Ancient Ghosts
I am very very VERY excited to announce that I have just signed up with Ticonderoga Publications to release a collection of novellas in early 2013. The collection will be titled The Year of Ancient...
View ArticleThe Fetid Nightie*
It’s important, while writing novels, to make sure you’ve slipped into something more comfortable while you work. I do a great deal of my writing in the early morning, when I first wake up, and this...
View ArticleKim of the Island
I am in the Orkneys, a little group of islands off the top of Scotland. There are only a few places in the world that I’ve long dreamed of going (Milford Sound was another: saw it last February....
View ArticleEight years old again
Sunrise on the Exmoor coast. About a year ago, I had a dream that I found an old notebook with outlines and ideas for a story I was writing when I was eight. On the cover was a yellow-and-gold-toned...
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