Book Reviews | Rules of Conflict/Law of Survival (Jani Kilian #2+3)
Rules of Conflict is book 2 in a series with a prequel, so it’s the third I’ve read and reviewed! As usual, my first task is to get to grips with who Jani Kilian is and what her world is The post Book...
View ArticleHijack! Flashback Fiction
Hijack! was written in 2014, a 1000 word idea of events that would happen sometime in the Princelings future. The sub-plots were there, but didn’t come out quite how this one develops. The pirates at...
View ArticleBook Review | Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyan Maugham KC
Bringing Down Goliath is a tale of a legal nature–mainly how the law can be used by the small people to bring our governments to order. To act legally, in fact. I can’t remember exactly when I started...
View ArticleAren’t people funny? #IWSG
Sometimes when I’m doing my book sales, my reaction sometimes has to be ‘aren’t people funny?’ It’s part of that shell you need to ward off the comments and reviews that hurt your ego. JS Pailly,...
View ArticleBook Review | Environomics by Dharshini David
I applied for an ARC of Environomics when I realised that it is already over 25 years since I studied environmental economics. It is also more than fifteen since I actually used any of it in my work....
View ArticleGreen | #writephoto Flash Fiction
Green was the keyword KL Caley attached to this colonnade of growing plants last year at new2writing.com. It more or less fitted an idea I had, responding to our dismal summer this year, and...
View ArticleBook Review | The Body in the Zero Gee Brothel
The Body In The Zero Gee Brothel is a novella (or ‘novelette’ according to the publisher) by Cameron Cooper, the first in a series of tales about a private law enforcer called Ptolemy Lane. I think I’d...
View ArticleBook Review | Paris Adrift by E J Swift
Paris Adrift is probably the best time travel book I’ve read so far this decade. I don’t often say things like this, but it gripped me. I must check out the other time related books I got from...
View ArticleGorg in Pursuit of Bale (part 2) | #flashback fiction
Gorg is a troll, and not my invention. Even the quest he is on is not my invention. But as Chuck Wendig gave us the task of completing a story someone else had written the previous week, I chose...
View ArticleBook Review | Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns
Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns is the first in Rhonda Parrish’s Elemental Anthologies series, so naturally I read it last. You can tell how much I loved each one as I continued to buy the set. I’m...
View ArticleBook Review | Ghost Pirate Gambit by Jessie Kwak
Ghost Pirate Gambit is the start of a series by Jessie Kwak that I got from storybundle (along with several other very enjoyable scifi books). I think storybundle.com is an excellent source of fantasy,...
View ArticleWhat to do about audiobooks? #IWSG
Do you have, or do you listen to, audiobooks? I have an audiobook problem, and I’d like your ideas. Basically, my narrator needs to change. Feather Stone, Kim Lajevardi,Diedre Knight, C. Lee McKenzie,...
View ArticleBook Review | The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable is due out on August 15th. Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the advance copy. I was fascinated by the description, and I wasn’t disappointed The...
View ArticleThe Steam Railway | #writephoto flash fiction
Steam was the writephoto prompt for last October. One of my visitors at the Lymington Craft Fair last weekend gave me the germ of an idea for this one, but most of the thanks go to K L Caley at The...
View ArticleBook Review | The Life Impossible #thelifeimpossible
The Life Impossible jumped out at me as I idly looked through netgalley, and I thank the publisher for the chance to read it. It’s the third Matt Haig book I’ve read, and he’s written loads more! It’ll...
View ArticleBook Review | Coraline #MMGM
Coraline was a gift from someone I worked with under rather tricky circumstances. She rated it… she was right. I’ve taken a leaf from Rebecca’s website to join in Marvellous Middle Grade Mondays, run...
View ArticleBook Review | One Summer In Tuscany
One Summer in Tuscany is excellent holiday reading with a light touch of romance. It’s by Domenica de Rosa, who I’ve met, and is one of my favourite authors. I reviewed Villa Serena a few years back...
View ArticleThe Scream | Flashback Fiction #WEPFF
This month’s flashback, The Scream was a work continuing WEP’s art theme for 2021’s flash fiction prompts. Regrettably the WEP hung up its pen this year, I think the admin had become burdensome. This...
View ArticleBook Review | How To Read Water
I’m not sure where I bought my copy of How to Read Water, but suspect it was while I was living next to a river. And not far from the sea. It made me nostalgic for both. How to Read The post Book...
View ArticleSo many ideas, so little time #IWSG
You know the problem; so many ideas, so little time. In my case the time constraint is how much time I can spend at the keyboard without wrecking my hands for several days. And damp weather makes them...
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