Life
Appearance: London, January 9th!
Mark your calendars! I’m doing a chat/reading at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club along with awesome authors Stark Holborn and Josh Winning! 9th of January, 7.00pm at The Star Of King pub, London.
Read more "Appearance: London, January 9th!"Wiktionary Cites My Book!
My proudest moment. Wiktionary has cited Pennyblade as an example of a certain rare term. It feels grand and humbling to give back to the dear old mother tongue.
Read more "Wiktionary Cites My Book!"This One Weird Mecha Trick Protects Me From Bad Weather!
With temperatures plummeting like a hammer off a high scaffold and the rains splattering the streets like someone beneath said hammer I think its time I revealed a secret about myself: in bad weather I often pretend I am a robot. Let me ‘unpack that’, as Buzzfeed columnists inevitably used to say by the second […]
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Midnight Barflies, Leicester
My Octopus Pal…
Been wearing this pendant for some weeks now. Picked it up for £3.00 at a literary convention in Edinburgh. I only wish I had some deep personal connection to octopi. But it looks pretty.
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A Little Improvisation…
My office is also my living room, which is nice and light and airy when I’m working but hella echoey when I’m doing a YouTube Zoom interview. Today I’m experimenting to muffle all that. Seems to work. A bit anyway. I may or may not pop a blanket on top as a roof. But I’m […]
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A mysterious package arrived and so I took it to the tavern room of Worrad Manor and opened it up. What a darling surprise! 😍
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