I moved house two weeks ago. Moving house is very exciting. I’m on the property ladder! It’s like I’m a proper grownup at last! There are drawbacks of course. And the biggest drawback in the last couple of weeks is that I have been forced to live a somewhat internet-free existence. Sure, I’ve had my…
Tag: Writing
WIP It Up Wednesday – “I think of the most terrible things”
WIPping in action Well, this is all very new and exciting – I have never partaken in a WIP It Up Wednesday before. Sure, I’ve lurked on other people’s but that’s hardly the same. Right here, right now, I am surrendering my Wipster Virginity. The story I’m sharing with you today has barely been started….
Hobnobbing with Renee Rose
I was a special guest over on Renee Rose’s blog today which was, of course, tremendously exciting. If you haven’t read the question and answer session between Renee and me over there, you should nip over and check it out straightaway. She asks all kinds of challenging questions about writing and feminism and my latest…
Plagiarism, Theft and Buy My Completely Original Book The Boss- , no, CLOWNman.
Author Aubrey Rose wrote on her blog last week about her book City Girl, Country Wolf being plagiarised. Basically, someone went through her original story and made just enough changes to sneak past any filters and then passed it off as their own work in much the same way that schoolchildren have been ‘rogeting’ their…
Happy Birthday Emmeline Pankhurst!
I love Google Doodles. There you are just getting on with your day deciding to google ‘Node.js libraries’ or ‘1950s wizard spanking’ or whatever (depending where you are at the time) and Google furnishes you with a cool little gift that didn’t even ask for. The doodles have all been a bit football-obsessed lately (but…
A is for Authenticity
This post is part of the Spanking A-Z Blog Challenge. What’s that I hear you ask? Check out my page here for more information. I write historical fiction. So far everything I have written or am in the process of writing has been set during the reign of Queen Victoria. It’s a period of history…
Why my hero won’t use a belt
At the moment, I am writing my third book set in Victorian England. Much as I love writing about this particular period in history I have – for the third time – find myself cursing the restrictions that the men’s fashions of the day impose on a spanking author. You see an Englishman in the…
What’s in a name?
How important are character names in books? Sure, a name is often the first thing your readers will learn about a character but surely any name will end up fitting if you’ve written the character well enough. Like with real people. Unlike fictional people, real people don’t have proper personalities when they’re given names. Sometimes…
Implausible Marrows
So I have been at a point of almost, almost being ready to submit my latest book, still tentatively called Like the Lightning, to the publishers for several days now. I was reading through draft #3,687,648 (probably) on the train this morning when I realised I had a problem. I had messed up my dates….
Writing Process Bloghop
Today I am taking part in the Writing Process Bloghop. I was tagged by Megan Michaels who talks about her own writing process here. Question 1: What am I working on?At the moment I am finishing my second book which is tentatively entitled Like the Lightning. The title is a reference to the hero’s work…