Writing and Editing
Isabella is a cartographer, taught by her father to navigate and plot a course by the stars and recreate the complexities of the world around her in ink. She and her Da live on Joya, an island which nobody is permitted to leave, ruled by the cold-hearted Governor. Despite its hardships, and the tragedies in …
I can’t believe I’ve been blogging for a whole year now. I probably wouldn’t believe it, if not for WordPress sending me a rather sweet little anniversary message the other day. I still feel like an absolute novice with this if I’m honest, but over the course of the last 52 weeks I have managed …
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If you missed my review of book one of this trilogy, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, you should probably go check that out before reading this one. This’ll be nice and spoiler-free for Days of Blood and Starlight, but there are spoilers for its prequel. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held …
Recently, a friend of mine uploaded a video talking about some of the common misconceptions around fanfiction, and mounting a comprehensive rebuttal of those. It made me think about my own history with fanfiction, and I wanted to contribute my own defence of a practice which I think is unfairly maligned. My experience of fanfiction …
The Washingtons have ruled America for almost 250 years. Princess Beatrice, as heir to the throne, feels the responsibility of that legacy and has been preparing all her life to take it on. Poised, reflective and supremely self-controlled, she’s keenly aware that her duty to the crown comes before everything else. In the meantime, Beatrice’s …
It can be tough, managing a large cast of characters, working out how to give them all the right amount of page time, deciding who needs developing and who doesn’t. One way to look at this is to know how you’re categorising your different characters. There are a bunch of ways to do this, of …
Amy’s life is close to perfect – two lovely daughters, a wonderful husband and she’s queen bee in her circle of soccer moms. She feels content, like she’s finally put some distance between herself and the terrible events of long ago. The only fly in the ointment is Charlotte, a recent arrival to this affluent …
Who doesn’t love a New Year’s Resolution? There’s something exciting about watching the clock tick over to a new year, feeling like this is a chance to turn over a new leaf, a chance to do better. Making New Year’s Resolutions means, for me at least, sitting down with that feeling and working out what …
Karou has two lives; her life as an art student in Prague, and her life running inexplicable errands for the monstrous Brimstone, and she’s doing her very best to balance the two. But events are in motion that will destroy that careful equilibrium, and that threaten to force her to choose between those two versions …
The end of the year approaches! As we come to the last week of 2019 it’s a great time to look back and reflect… on the books we read this year. I feel like I could have read more (don’t we all?) but I also read some absolutely stunning books this year, and I wanted …
