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Category Archives: Musings
Looking forward, looking back: 2011/12
One of the advantages of a long-running blog (or a diary, for that matter) is that you get to look back on previous years’ New Year resolutions and laugh – or cry. Now, this main blog of mine has only … Continue reading
Travelling hopefully: the pleasure of reading
The other day I was reading The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie, and after I put it down (to get off the bus and walk home!) I reflected on why I was enjoying it so much. Part of it, of … Continue reading
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An Opinion of One’s Own
The recent debate on women’s visibility in SFF has thrown up a few issues facing women in the genre, but has mostly focused on male blindspots and the predominance of male reviewers, awards judges, survey participants and so on. On … Continue reading
21st Century Pulp
There’s a lot of debate about ebooks pricing and the future of publishing at the moment. At one extreme you have Big Publishers charging hardback prices for new ebooks; at the other, self-publishers setting prices as low as 99 cents … Continue reading
Gestating Elephants
I don’t usually blog about writing because, yanno, I’m trying to avoid creating Yet Another Writer’s Blog. But a number of things have happened this week that got me thinking, and I felt I had to share them. On the … Continue reading
Sisters – doing it for ourselves
There’s been a lot of debate recently following an online survey asking readers for their “must read” SF list, the issue being that less that 10% of the suggested books were by women. Why, it was asked, the overwhelming bias? … Continue reading
Romance and geekdom
There’s been a teeny debate online this week between two people I met at EasterCon: Gavin Pugh of Gav Reads, and Sophia McDougall. The discussion centred on slash fiction and whether it was right to (homo)sexualise fictional characters in fan … Continue reading
The truth is out there – or is it?
Last week, the press release went out from Angry Robot about my new book deal – hurrah! AR did a nice job in summing up the story, or so I thought: “Explorers have returned from the New World bearing strangely … Continue reading
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Going back to my roots: conlanging for novels
I have a confession to make: I’ve been playing at making up languages since before I discovered Tolkien. It started in school, inspired (I think) by Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy; a friend and I created a whole world, albeit … Continue reading
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Here Be No Dragons
When I was much younger, I loved dragons. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy and of course The Hobbit were amongst my favourite books. As a teenager I devoured all of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern books. … Continue reading
