That it is National Poetry Month has not escaped me, but I will not bother to mention it as 1) I am not a poet and 2) poets get far too much attention as it is and 3) there are far too many bad poets who would only find this encouragement to go on. They…
Category: gothic
BitchBuzz: Mashing Jane
My latest column for BitchBuzz is actually a book review. I must say I had fun writing it. More fun than the book. Even better, BitchBuzz is now part of the Glam Media network, so there’s hope this leads to bigger and better things for the whole BB crew: There’s something to be said for…
Gothic Monday
Have you been keeping up with my serial novel blog, The Mangrove Legacy? As I contemplate ways to regularise my weekly schedule here, it strikes me that I don’t always remember to draw folks’ attention to the serial novel, which I update every Sunday night. If you like comic gothic shenanigans, you will probably enjoy…
The Next Big Thing
Perhaps — it’s big in Japan, anyway and may well be big here soon: text novels. Yep, that’s right: a novel that’s sent bit by bit to your phone or mobile device. Charles Dickens, eat your heart out! My pal, Saranna DeWylde, has a couple of novels begun there, and told me I really need…
Effortless
In slow increments of about 500 words at a time, my serial novel The Mangrove Legacy, has passed over the 70,000 word threshold. My, my. Break a task into tiny steps and it gets done (eventually, but fairly effortlessly).