Writer, Artist and Fairy Tale Enthusiast
Follow my quest as a dyslexic writer battling with words to avoid the perils of the slushpile
Monday 23 January 2012
Once upon a Time, Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf, was made of cotton thread. Crochet fairy tales finger puppets…
My sister made me these adorable crochet 'Red Riding Hood' and 'Big Bad Wolf' finger puppets. She made the patterns up her self. Thought I'd share them as they're so cute!
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2012 –The Wait is Over
Undiscovered Voices Anthology 2012 –The Wait is Over
The wait is over, Undiscovered Voices 2012 Anthology is out and
about, winging it’s way over to agents and editors the breadth of the British Isles.
So, from an Honorary Mention, (oh yes page ten of the book! Big
Smiles when I saw my name - in print – in a book – an actual book with ISBN and
everything!), I would just like to send my best regards to all the Winners, and
I hope you have great success out of your extraordinary achievement and opportunity.
Of course, I also send my best’ist wishes and good luck, to all my
fellow honorary mentions too – we’ll be next (fingers crossed)!
And then cheekily, if you’re an agent or an editor who has looked
me up after seeing my name in the honorary mention’s; Firstly, THANK-YOU, it’s
much appreciated; And secondly if you are interested in knowing more about ‘Through
Mortal Eyes’ please click below to e-mail me, and I’d gladly send you over the synopsis
and an extract from the novel.
But just to whet your appetite, here is a blurb and information
about ‘Through Mortal Eyes’…
Through
Mortal Eyes · YA Fantasy/Romance with a Fairy Tale Theme·
88,000 words
Ruby's life
consists of studying, working, and looking after her incompetent stepmother and
infant half-brother. All this changes when she find a book, 'The Hunters Tale'
where the hunter is on the trail of the dangerous Little Red Riding Hood. Ruby
starts to see a resemblance between a plague of baby death in a book and an
epidemic that is killing infants in real life. She needs to work out whether
they are related, are the deaths caused by disease or the work of a fairytale
villain?
Can Ruby find the answers in time to save her baby brother, and her
strange assortment of new friends, including talking crows, fleshing eating
sorcerers and, her multi-species boyfriend and not forgetting her best friend,
who dreams people’s deaths?
For more information e-mail me click here or check out my Through Mortal Eyes page
Sunday 8 January 2012
New Year’s Resolution; Read More, my 2012 Reading List
New Year’s Resolution; Read More - My 2012 Reading List
So here we are in 2012, how did that happen? Well, my New Year’s
resolution is to read more. Now, you
probably think; what, she’s a writer I bet she read loads, well erm, that’s not
as true as I would like it to be. I’m a slow reader, due to my Dyslexia, and
when I read a book I have a relationship with it. For the duration of time I’m
reading it, I enter into that world, and if it’s a good read then my life stop
as and all I do is read.
So in 2012, I’ve decided I’m going to aim to read a novel a
week.
So where do I start. Well, I could start with my TBR ‘To Be
Read’ pile, which is ever increasing. Writing and having writing friends means there
is never a shortage of book recommendations that I MUST read. Also, getting to
know new writer friends means I also want to read all their books so my TBR
pile is truly ever increasing!
My current TBR (To Be Read) Pile! Not including books like
Candy Gourley’s ‘Tall Story’ which I’ve yet to acquire!)
On top of my TBR pile, there is my wish list / shopping list
of books that are coming out in 2012 that I really want to read…
2012 reading wish list
In January…
|
The Big Bad Wolf; Fairy Tale Twists by Katie
Dale
In
February…
Faery Tales and Nightmares, by
the fabulous author Melissa Marr author of the Wicked Lovely books. This has a
provisional publication date of February.
In March…
Ascend, the final instalment of Amanda
Hockings the Trylle trilogy
In April…
In May…
Also due out in 2012, but date not yet
announced…
The
yet un-titled sequel to Moria Young’s, Blood Red Road, which
is due out sometime in 2012
GakuenAlice Volume 14, 15, 16 and 17 by Tachibana Higuchi.
This one my favioute Manga series and it too good to miss so you should check
it out!
Books I Read every Year…
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)