In which I attempt to hold all my Neil Gaiman books, mostly unsuccessfully, and ramble on about how hard it is to pick a favourite author, let alone book. Although if I had to choose one – yes, it’d be him. Although don’t ask me to narrow it down to a single book. Please. Good Omens…
Coconut, Almond & Blueberry Cake (Dragon Approved)
As the lovely beta-readers are getting back to me with their feedback on Baking Bad, Beaufort’s first cozy mystery, I’m starting to see a trend. Well, two. One is the terrible muddling of my US and UK English (terms, not spelling), which I blame both on New Zealand’s sometimes quite hybridised version of English, and…
Nine Parts Bluster – A.Z. Anthony Short Stories
In which I finally get around to talking about Nine Parts Bluster and Other Stories by A.Z. Anthony, which is a very good collection of four not-very-short horror-ish stories which I read, enjoyed, and lost in the depths of my Kindle. And now I’ve remembered them, I need to go see what else he’s got…
7 Signs You’re In A Cozy Mystery
As you may or may not know, the current WIP (ahem, two current WIPs, cough cough) is a cosy mystery. Or cozy mystery, as although that’s the American spelling, it seems to be the standard for all these gentle whodunnits, even the ones set in small English villages and featuring tea-drinking dragons. However you spell…
Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
In which I discuss – okay, ramble – about Shirley Jackson’s perfectly unsettling Gothic suspense novel, which features the most unreliable of narrators, way before that was the cool thing to do. I think most of us who’ve done some reading and/or writing in the horror genre will have come across The Lottery and The…
