The cover for the SFR Brigade anthology has been released! Isn’t it shiny? 🙂 From the SFR Brigade website: The anthology features nine stories from nine different authors in a variety of styles and settings including space opera, near future, apocalyptic, Earth-based and alien romance. (You may even discover some favorite characters from Science Fiction […]
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Years ago, when I first started getting serious about writing, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who dabbled in photography. He was rather firmly of the opinion that artist should not charge for art, that no one actually has a right to make a living as an artist, despite being someone who
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So, there’s this fun link (here) where you type in ‘your’ name, and it tells you what you are made of. I typed in my name, and here is the result: Amy Laurens is made of waffles, octopi, and shadows. With a dash of Twitter. Which I take to mean that I am am sweet,
Look! I’m in another anthology! Considering how little writing I’m doing these days, I find this quite exciting :o) Tales from the SFR Brigade will be a free anthology of stories by members of the SFR Brigade, SFR being Science Fiction Romance. There are even a couple of big name authors involved, most notably Linnea
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So, just for the heck of it, I’m practising queries. Actually, also because I’ve dug out Sanctuary again and am plodding onwards with edits. I’m nearly done with Draft 2, and I’m rather hopefully that it will only need up to a Draft 4 before it’s DONE-done. Hopefully. :S Anyway, in the spirit of procrastination
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Yup. Pretty much. 😀 Via @lianabrooks. Read more:So, this happened today…Look! Lookit Wot I Haz!Glittering, Glimmering, Gilded
So, I think we may have a bit of a tradition of doing mad-cap things during Earth Hour now. Last year was admittedly boring, what with having a one-month-old in the house, but the year before we had 8 baby puppies running around the place, and during Earth Hour we did puppy-feet finger-painting. I’ll dig out
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Look! You requested, I complied: chapter 4a of L.A.O.S. is UP! For reals this time. I tried to post this two nights ago and it ate my entire site. #unamused. Read more:#WeeklyBookPic Book That Took Me The Longest To Get Into That I Now Adore PassionatelyMade-It Monday: Another Book Cover! 😀Purity (A Puricorn Story)
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Dear girls in class, who are currently discussing gender politics: I am so proud of you. As you sit there and realise for perhaps the first time the ways that social constructions of gender restrict us, I can almost feel your hearts and minds being opened. And the fact that, although we are studying women’s rights
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Oh, lookit wot I found! So, I’ve been tidying up the site a bit. I have a template I’m actually pretty happy with now, the HollyShop rebate is open again (including for How To Think Sideways and How to Revise Your Novel, whee!) (details here), and the blog has moved on in. And yes, I
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