Guest Post: Andrea Stewart: Submitting Stories Again, and Again, and Again…
I’m thrilled to welcome Andrea Stewart to the blog today. We met via AbsoluteWrite, as she was a hopeful through this year’s Angry Robot Open Door month, and so she joined our online writing group. I’m...
View ArticleStep Right Up: London Launch, My First Blurb, and some links!
First order of business: Pantomime has an official London launch & venue: February 7th at the Forbidden Planet megastore, hooray! Thursday 07 February 2013 18:00 – 19:00 London Megastore, 179...
View Article2012 Restrospective: I’m Glad the World Didn’t End
2012 is almost done. And we’re all still here. This didn’t happen Last year, as I said in my previous end-of-year review, I landed a full-time, permanent job, which I am still in and I work for a great...
View ArticlePantomime News
Been awhile since I did a general update of stuff, so here we go! 1. My launch at the London Forbidden Planet Megastore now has an event page. Please feel free to join if you wish to come or to invite...
View ArticleThe Pantomime Blog Tour
My Blog Tour for Pantomime begins today, January 18th, and runs to February 7th currently, which is the UK launch date. Below are the places I will be appearing, and I’ll come back and edit as the...
View ArticleMore Milestones
A few days ago, the final version of Pantomime arrived. This was a moment I’d been idly daydreaming about since I was 14, and maybe even earlier than that. It’s one of the last milestones–ones I’m...
View ArticlePantomime Achievement Unlocked: Officially Published
Well. Today is Pantomime‘s US release date. I am now a published author. It’s so surreal. I woke up this morning and when I checked my phone, Caroline Hooton had tweeted me this photo of Pantomime in...
View ArticlePantomime’s London Launch
The Forbidden Planet launch at London’s megastore on the 7th was wonderful. I flew down Wednesday night, and the journey ended up being rather farcical as I took: a car to the airport, the plane down...
View ArticlePantomime’s Aberdeen Launch
Photo credit: Alex Silver Friday the 15th was my Aberdeen launch at the local Waterstones, for my friends and family who understandably couldn’t make it out to London. And wow. I moved to Aberdeen...
View ArticleA Day in Edinburgh: Guest Talk at Napier University
Photo credit: David Bishop Yesterday I went to Edinburgh to do a brief guest talk at Napier University for their MA Creative Writing students that are specializing in Genre. As a side note, I love that...
View ArticleHow to Help Debut (or, really, any) Authors
I’ve had quite a few people (well, okay, like 5) ask me the best way to support me, and so I thought I’d collate the information I’ve learned. Obviously, this isn’t a completely altruistic post (as...
View ArticleGuest Post: Mike Stewart on Adding a Dash of Transmedia to your Writing
Today on the blog I have my fellow Inkbot, Mike Stewart. The Inkbots are an online writing group from the people who made it to the later rounds of Angry Robot’s two Open Door months. Mike has just...
View ArticleCatch-up Post
Event! I have a signing next Saturday, April 13, at the Waterstones (Langstane branch – the one by Bon Accord St) in Aberdeen. It starts at 1 pm, and it might go until 3, or until it seems like I’m...
View ArticleRecent Events
I’ve done a couple of Pantomime events over the past few weeks. On April 13th, I had a signing at Waterstones in Aberdeen at the Langstane Branch. It was a quiet day in the store but I still met a few...
View ArticleShadowplay (Pantomime2) is Submitted!
So, a few days ago I pressed “send” and delivered Shadowplay to my editor at Strange Chemistry. It’ll be out on shelves in a little more than eight months, which is crazy to think. It’s another one of...
View ArticleThe LGBT Read-a-thon!
The 3rd-6th of May was the LGBT Read-a-thon, hosted by Faye @ Daydreamer’s Thoughts. I joined though I couldn’t quite participate in everything as I was swamped with schoolwork. I read one book for...
View ArticleFlabbergasted #23 and My Desk
As an addendum to the previous blog entry – evidently I’m number 23 in bestsellers in Glasgow airport! So each store has different numbering, which is one mystery solved. Very exciting! My gasts are...
View ArticleAfter Publication: The Roller Coaster Doesn’t End
Getting published is always the goal, the end goal, what you aim for during all those nights and mornings of typing away at the keyboard. You spend so much energy thinking about finishing the book,...
View ArticleBooks Read in May
I am J – Cris Beam. An excellent book on transgender FTM teen, J, and his quest for acceptance and finding himself. Read for the LGBT-read-a-thon. Timeless – Alexandra Monir. A time travel YA...
View ArticleA Few Links
Just a flying visit with a few links of me out and about on the web: 1. I have a guest post on Gay YA called The Grey of Gender: Intersex and Gender Variant/Non-Binary Characters in YA 2. I...
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