Stumbled across this video earlier in the week and thought it was interesting enough to share. The video sliiiiightly simplifies the situation – I actually did a paper on this during university! – but it’s a clear enough introduction to the topic if it’s not something you’re familiar with. So. Why DIDN’T Ancient Greek have […]
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Oh wow. Oh. Wow. Guys? The From The Ground Up saga is over. And I am so pleased, and relieved, and excited. I could never have envisaged the journey that this one-book-which-became-three would go on back in 2012 when I first submitted the proposal for it, but now here we are, almost exactly eight years
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That’s right, book 16. You guys. I’ve made 16 books. o.O Wow. Anyway, today is release day for How To Create Life, my cute lil handbook for writers (and anyone else interested in comparative anatomy) about why plants and animals look/function the way they do, and what habits result in what appearance, and what climate
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Welp, even if my writing schedule isn’t fully back on track yet (AH HA HA HA HA), I at least have reached the requisite brain capacity to do publishing work. Not only are the 2020 Inklets in production, but THIS lil pretty is too!! How To Create Life will be available in all your favourite
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Oops. Didn’t realised I hadn’t blogged basically all of last week. The last two weeks have been a bit of a mess, sorry, emotionally and mentally speaking. Anyway. They’re gone, they’re over, and now we’re moving on 🙂 So, the print version of How To Create Cultures is finally out now too, since the actual
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Just mucking around making some advertising graphics this weekend. Bit of fun that will be useful, too 🙂 Except, urgh, I’m going to have to edit that last one because it says ‘this holidays’, which, URGH. But anyway, apart from that they are pretty 🙂 <3 What have you made this week? Don’t forget to
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I’m in the middle of a big, chaotic week here as I frantically try to wrap up all these deadlines before Christmas. But the first 12 Inklets went off for their final-final round of proofreading last night, and today–just now in fact–I’ve finished typing up and then uploading the proof corrections for this baby: Which
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I mean, just, like, one or two tears. But I uploaded How To Create Cultures to the printers today, and in 24-48 hours I should be able to order a physical proof copy. The book is done, you guys. The map I drew for it may have taken 5 hours to draw and process (no
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Yo, #FGU! Yep, it’s true: I finally, actually, mostly, probably, truly have tentative release dates for my epic worldbuilding book, From The Ground Up! WOW has this been a long haul. If you know the story, skip the next paragraph, but in case you don’t……. I wrote the proposal for FGU waaaaaay back in 2012
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