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Nailing my colours to the mast
This is a rant, I make no apologise for this. If you don’t wish to read a rant then you should just stop here, but it is, I feel, an important rant. I also stand by ever word. Originally this … Continue reading
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Dear Edgar 64 ~ Von Kempelen and His Discovery
By April 1849 our dear Edgar was a widower finding his comfort once more in the bottle. Privately he had started becoming increasingly unstable after Viginia’s death in January 1847. Yet publicly he had never been so successful. The initial … Continue reading
Posted in Poe, reads, retro book reviews, Uncategorized
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Cosy dragons and haunted beds
Now, to be fair, while I may read a lot of old dead white men, they are far from the only things I read. Some genre’s however I read less than others, not really for any major reason, I just don’t really seek them out. However on occasion a different subgenre crosses my path and for one reason or another I feel compelled to read them.
As is often the case these books are not written by old middle class white men, the authors are all alive as well, which makes a nice change. Continue reading
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Music to Write by ~ Female Rage Edition
So in the spirit of sharing new music to write by, or just listen to (of which there may be a theme… ) Form the almost mainstream down to an artist so obscure their you tube channel is only marginally better subscribed than my own Continue reading
Posted in music, Uncategorized, writing, writing music
Tagged music, review, reviews, rock, writing, writing music
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Interesting Folk…
Folk horror is when a stranger stumbles into a “quaint” village and discovers horrors at a harvest festival! Folk horror is fundamentally British and pagan! Continue reading
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Tagged book-review, books, film, folk horror, horror, pagan, reads, reviews
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Oh… you’re just self-published?
Oh… your self published, that’s wonderful, tell me about your book… Continue reading
Posted in amwriting, indie writers, indiewriter, publication, self-publishing, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged author, books, fiction, publishing, writer, writerslife, writing, writingtips
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Feline Economics
Feline economics. The cat lives if you can afford the cost of keeping it alive, otherwise, good night fluffy, and this nice woman in the lab coat is going to help you go to sleep. Continue reading
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Eventing
It is eventing season… No not prancing about on horses, which I do not do having no wish to inflict a poor horse with my riding skills, the other kind of eventing season… This October I will be at out … Continue reading
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Turning Widdershins
Three turns windleshin’s
Around the Lochfa’ston
Three turns windleshin’s
an’ call the other’s names Continue reading
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Ben ‘W’ Sawyer, perhaps…
Fellow Harvey writer, Doctor who cosplayer, and supplier of sweets to small children Ben Sawyer has defiantly not taken any inspiration form Robert W Chambers for his next novel… Which I am looking forward to immensely, and will be out … Continue reading
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