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Book recs and mini interviews; and Writing, then & now
Book recommendations & mini interviews Last month, I reviewed R.W.W. Greene‘s The Light Years – highly recommended. I had asked Rob where he got the initial idea for the book. His response: The short version is the shower. I’d just gotten home from a sci-fi convention, and I had a lot of thoughts whirling in…
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Dispatches from the home coffee shop
Greetings from my writing cave or, Life’s curveballs I retired in January and expected to be home more. But like many of you, I hadn’t anticipated I would have to stay home. Interesting times, eh? I miss the coffee shop. I miss seeing the regulars – the baristas, former colleagues and friends – and I…
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Novel Conversations – Sir Stephan’s visit to Helen Hollick’s blog
I hope you aren’t missing the series of character interviews on Helen’s blog every Friday. Authors are always getting interviewed, but Helen, with the folks at IndieBRAG, had the brilliant idea to interview characters from novels. I was lucky enough to be invited – rather, Sir Stephan l’Aigle from my medieval novels was invited to Helen’s…
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Bookish talk – visiting Emma the Little Bookworm
Many thanks to Pauline Barclay at Chill With A Book and Emma Mitchell for spotlighting #chillbooks awardees. I had the opportunity to ‘talk’ to Emma on her blog about the inspiration for For King and Country, the importance of awards like the Chill Readers Award, my other writing, possible future projects, and more. Check it…
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Right to Reply – the 12th Century
Author Annie Whitehead invited E.M. Powell, Edward Ruadh Butler and me to “slug it out” on her blog, Casting Light upon the Shadow a few weeks ago as part of her “Right to Reply” series. Our topic — one near and dear to each of our hearts — The 12th Century. Annie asked us E.M.…