I am excited to be part of a mystery / horror giveaway for 50 books and an ereader (to one lucky entrant) running until Wenesday 09 November. It’s free to enter, all you have to do is visit this page here for info. There are lots of exciting mystery titles here!
I am so excited (and nervous) to be sharing that today is PUBLICATION DAY for my new dark fantasy book A PALE BOX ON THE DISTANT SHORE. This book is available as an ebook and paperback across all online retail stores, and available to order via your local bookshop or library. You can check this …
đ Pictured here is a book called And I Darken by Kiersten White. I read it a while back and really loved it, though I still haven’t finished the series. I’ve noticed I have some very bad habits of starting loads of series, but its a lot harder to finish them for some reason, even …
On the weekend, my husband and I drove 4 hours to stay in a beautiful South Australian national Park, Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park. No reception. Very isolated. So very beautiful. Lots of walking. I loved it!.These photos are of us seeing the sights.
đ This is a book I read recently that I LOVED!.â This photo is of Six Four, a detective novel written by Hideo Yokoyama and translated into English from the original Japanese. I ADORED this book.â .â Actually, I chose it from the library, brought it home and then realised my husband had already borrowed it and read …
đ I’ve been working on a fun little project lately … a companion visual guide for my upcoming debut fantasy novel called DREAM OF DEATH CITY (November 2022). It is available now for my lovely newsletter subscribers, and it’s a bit of a fun sneak peak at the characters, places and fantasy culture featured in …
I’ve been watching a documentary on Amazon called Knights and, you guessed it, it is all about knights! It’s a weird little show but quite a fun watch, and I’ve learned some crazy things about medieval times and knights in general! Here are some of them: Mouldy bread used as medicine In medieval times, barbers were in …
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I’m writing this as rain pours outside my window and my cat snores beside me (louder than you’d expect). In my opinion, a rainy, chilly day is a good day! Though I must admit this month hasn’t been all good, or the most productive, what with getting covid, a wasp stuck inside my t-shirt (!) and also some …
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I’ve been watching the latest season of Netflix’s Love Death Robots anthology of short animated stories (season 3). I’ve always enjoyed this show, which is filled with strange, wild and often very dark little stories, all animated in different styles. But this season, one of the stories actually blew me away and I cannot stop thinking about …
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I recently read a pretty crazy story from the introduction of a history book that I wanted to share with you because … why not? I learned about Nitocris from the intro of a book called When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney. Here is a crazy little story from history: In the fifth century B.C, …