With Queen of Nowhere coming out a week today, I thought I’d put the first scene up here, to give you a flavour. Enjoy. ————————————- After three weeks of luxurious indolence, Bez was ready to become someone else. She had, however, intended to make the change on her own terms. Not like this. The cops […]

As part of the *other* celebration going on right now – the upcoming release of Queen of Nowhere – women’s website FemaleFirst have been kind enough to interview me. Read all about it here.

Mslexia, the magazine of women’s writing, has been kind enough to interview me for their latest issue, in the company of Urban Fantasy writer Suzanne Macleod and Fantasy author Elspeth Cooper. It’s good to see this prestigious magazine covering the SFF genre. (Brace yourself for more shameless shelf-promotion, as I’ve got blog spots and reviews […]

You know when something on t’internets clearly articulates ideas you share but haven’t actually put into words, then adds new concepts you hadn’t even thought of? Adrienne Kress recently used Joe Scalzi’s ‘Big Idea’ feature to discuss her new novel The Friday Society, and she raised some excellent points about the portrayal of female characters. […]

Simon Appleby (he of BookGeeks) has kindly asked me to contribute to a new website for book lovers of all flavours and persuasions, called Nudge. As one of the first SF writers to get in there, I had a wide range of options, and I’ve chosen to make a rather self-indulgent list; specifically, of my […]

I’ve been memed. (Is meme a verb? It is now…). The lovely and talented Paul Cornell has challenged me to take part in the meme de jour. How could I resist? What is the working title of your next book? Queen of Nowhere, although it’s not a working title given the book is already in […]

…this one virtual. I’ve almost caught up with my sleep-deprivation from the weekend, so I thought I’d point out, for those who haven’t already seen it, that Alyx Dellamonica, author of Wild Things, has been kind enough to let me loose on her blog, where I’ve decided to debunk one of the most common writerly […]

Well, that was fun. Exhausting, but fun. We arrived around mid afternoon on Friday, and soon met up with the first of many old friends (in the bar, natch). Then I was into a hectic evening’s programming. I was one of several guests on the opening chat-show, and I took the opportunity to confess that […]

I’m trying to be all mature and professional about Novacon but my exuberance keeps getting the better of me. Fortunately Beloved is acting as the voice of reason, reminding me to pack practical stuff and pointing out that being the Last Woman (Barely) Standing in the bar at 5am is not only not required of […]

The season of the novel is almost upon us. I have a nostalgic fondness for NaNoWriMo. I successfully completed it only once, in 2006, and I didn’t write a novel as such, just the 50,000 words required to ‘win’ at National Novel Writing Month. 50K is a realistic goal, and at that time being kicked […]