Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s post, I am so, so, SO super excited to announce that How Not To Acquire A Castle is now available for ebook preorder! Kindle preorder will be coming in just before Christmas, since I can only put that up 90 days out, and print preorder should start appearing […]
YOU GUYS, MERCURY IS *COMING* (HNOTC on preorder) Read More »
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
Made-It Monday: How To Create Cultures Interior! :) Read More »
Whoa, I’m, like, so shocked: new study ‘reveals’ that growing up with a large* home library results in significantly improved literacy, numeracy, and digital communication skills! 😱😱 No way!! 📚📚📚 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/growing-surrounded-books…/… * “Average” = 80 books in the house, large = ‘more than that’, with numbers over 350 not having any further discernible impact. (Curious:
Whoa No Way, Books Are Good For Kids! Read More »
See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not
Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 2) Read More »
One of my friends got tangled in an argument on Twitter last week about why fiction even matters in the first place. Conveniently, I actually addressed that in one of my recent non-fiction books, so I thought I’d repost here tagged accordingly. This is in two parts – part two will post tomorrow. Storytelling
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Sticking to my commitment here of getting back to week-daily blogging. Ermagersh. Today has been a slog of marking, marking, and just for a change, some more marking. But the lovely twinny one has been keeping me sane: we did a voice-only Skype chat to keep each other company, and she set 10-minutely timers. I
Things and Elephants and Stuff and Apparently Another Cover Reveal Because Why Not? Read More »
It’s taking me a bit to catch up from the craziness of this term, but I’m getting there. I have a couple more major things that need doing in the next two weeks (before I go to Vegas, OMG I AM GOING TO VEGAS IN LIKE JUST OVER A WEEK, ARGH!!!!) but once that’s done,
I’m Alive, I Promise (With ALL The Cover Reveals!) Read More »
I mean, I say ‘wrap-up’, but tbh I have no brain, like, AT ALL? So look! You have have pretty pictures! (Thanks, Mum.) (Also thanks Mum for the food, which was as amazing as it looks in that last picture :3) (Not that I ate anything but a brownie, because: talking and signing? But still.
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
Made-It Monday: Catalogues Read More »
And there will be copies of The Complete Sanctuary Series there as well, a week early 😉 🙂 Read more:New Inklet! A Wolf For Christmas How To Theme: IntroductionPhew
