The expression waking up on the wrong foot or on the wrong side of the bed, to me as a writer, tends to rule my writing day. Right up to and including the infamous “block”. If my morning starts off well, I’m relaxed and can keep writing as if it’s tea and scones...
A decade and a half before Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Diane Duane started her Young Wizards series with So You Want to Be a Wizard. I think I discovered it because—even though I was already an adult—I loved middle grade and YA books about the possible...
Here's an author interview with Gretchen Bassier. Take it away, Gretchen... Q: What’s your favourite published work of yours and why? A: Probably a short story called “The Enemy,” just because I like the idea of a little kid successfully fighting monsters, both...
‘Be aware that this anthology will be marketed to a wide female readership,’ it said in the submission call for Sinful Pleasures. As a line, it looks innocuous. As a reality, it’s about as innocuous as a bear pit. ‘A wide female readership.’ So - something that will...
Not The Nine O’Clock News and the inspiration behind one of the silly names Mistress of the Air is a comic, erotic adventure. My incorrigible Edwardian dominatrix, Lady Sally Rudston-Chichester, travels around Europe in her airship ‘The Corseted Domme’ causing mayhem....
About Long Shadows LA cop Jericho Crewe got the hell out of Mosely, Montana, when he was seventeen. Fifteen years later, he’s back, and everything is just as messed up as when he left. He planned a quick visit to deal with his injured father, but of course things are...
