7 Quick Takes: Shakespeare, Swing, Subjectivity Research

The busyness of my weeks barely permit me to have time to write a post, and I'm squeezing in each as I go, stealing spare pennies. 7 Quick Takes Friday is hosted by Kelly of This Ain't the Lyceum. ~1~ As usual, I start with the work. I've been doing research for my third year …

Happy Steam-Powered Christmas

I suspect anybody reading this on Christmas Day will have also read a thousand Christmas posts. So, I wanted to do something different, and have gathered a few lovely Steampunk Christmas pictures from the web. A mechanical and copper bauble? That's a slightly creepy Father Christmas necklace. If you want a faerie or supernatural edge …

Photo of the Week: Flaming Spire

Amongst all of the photos from my trip to Dubai - which I am still sorting through, by the way, otherwise I might try and find my footing with a couple of posts about my exports - I've chosen this striking photo to be my photo of the week, yay. This was the structure in …

Photo of the Week: Coconut Cup

This is almost a bowl, rather than a cup, but it's still an amazing thing to be given when ordering a drink. Plus, I'm pretty proud of this photo for its use of light and focus. And, yes, Malibu with apple juice is surprisingly refreshing.

Photo of the Week: Key-and-Wing

Rose -and-wing key necklace from the Etsy shop Keyper's Cove. I chose the red colour, but there were a variety offered. These sorts of jewellery are rather addictive to buy. 😀  

Woodland Portfolio

|Two exams down, six to go.| Today I thought I'd share some photos I took recently of the woods and lake on my campus. If you'd like to use them as inspiration pieces for fiction, feel free. I think I'll allow modifications to the photos if you credit me and link me through (I'd love …

Extolling the Virtues of Steampunk Subgenres

Yes, WTCB is more NeoVictorian than Steampunk – rather than being set in the 19th Century, NeoVictorian or ‘Victoriana’ novels are set in the modern century with Victorian manners, class systems and technology as I hope WTCB is, whilst being set in 2010 – but with the devising of my new Steampunk novel ‘H’, I’ve …

Photo of the WeeK: Arms

An old one this week (that is, to say, an old photo I've not used before), since I've not had much time (been editing almost non-stop until two days ago when I then went out for a friend's birthday) and not much of which to take a picture. This is the coat of arms-type embossment …

KA Last’s Immagica Map Reveal

Woo, I'm part of the bloghop map reveal of KA Last's new novel Immagica. (I'd advise clicking on the image to see the intricacies. It's so pwetty.) I met KA when I was part of her team for Pitcharama, a learning curve for me in my query and first pages. Since then, we've also worked on …

Maleficent Seven Cover Talk

A post today just to be a fan and squee a bit. Any Skulduggery Pleasant or Derek Landy fans out there? I was randomly surfing the internet when I saw that he'd posted the paperback cover of the spin-off novella, The Maleficent Seven (okay, he did this over a week ago, but I've only just found it, and my blog is kinda …