Time for the usual introspective blog post over the past year and looking forward to the next one. I never know if these types of entries are interesting to anyone but me but anyway. The last decade has seen my life change drastically. In 2009, at 21, I had just moved to Scotland from California. I was struggling to make… Read More
Upcoming Events & Books Read in April
I have finally updated my Visits & Events page In May: May 21: Love Panel with Noelle Harrison, Tracy Gow, Laura Lam & Sandra Ireland, Blackwells North Bridge, Edinburgh. (There will be paperback editions of the first Romancing the Page collection available here!) May 23: Envisioning Space Exploration: Scotland in Space and the Literary Imagination. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. I’ll be reading from my… Read More
Books Read in Feb & March
February 1. The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron 2. January Embers (A Year in Paradise Book 1) – Hildred Billings 3. Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly 4. My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite 5. Moon: The Art, Science and Culture of the Moon – Alexandra Loske 6. The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon 7…. Read More
Books Read in September
Ah, so delayed. But better late than never. 1. The Hunter – Andrew Reid (agent sibling–this was fun and clever. Thriller with a badass female MMA lead who kicks a lot of people in the face!) In the ring, Cameron King is known as The Hunter. A celebrated champion. A warrior. But when her brother, science genius Nate, deliberately crashes… Read More
Books Read in April
Not a lot this month. Lots of marking, and there were about four books I was partly done with but didn’t finish by the end of the month. 1. Successful Self-Publishing – Joanna Penn [I’m considering self-publishing romance novellas under a related name] Do you want to successfully self-publish? There are thousands of new books being published every… Read More
Books Read in March
Despite this being one of the busiest and most stressful months of my life, I managed to sneak in some reading. 1. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (re-read) Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience. It opens with these… Read More
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