World Building – is Simple ever Better?

As a sci-fi and fantasy writer, I don’t write stories set in our world. Instead, my stories exist in worlds that I’ve made up inside my head. I’m not bound by the constraints of reality, or the technology that currently exists. I don’t even...

Jessica Dall – Author Interview

Today I have author Jessica Dall here to talk about her new book, The Copper Witch, and her inspiration for writing. First up, I have to say, I have cover envy. Look at that beautiful cover. The colours are just gorgeous. It certainly inspired me to take a closer...

The Structure of a Novel

While it may seem that each novel is completely different, most of them have an underlying structure that has a surprising number of similarities. This is the basic structure I use for my novels, so I’m going to demonstrate it using those. I’m willing to...

Deleted Scenes

Last week, I took my daughter to see the new Disney movie, Frozen, and a new fan was born. Since then, everything has been about Frozen. We’ve sewn an Elsa dress, and the latest fun was to download the album from the movie. We paid extra for the extended album,...

Reckless Recon – An Update, and A New Beginning

Well, progress on Reckless Recon has been going pretty well for the last couple of weeks. My frustration with realising I had to change a lot of chapters I’d written, combined with the release of Twin Curse, meant I didn’t get much written for a while, but...