The upcoming new book will be titled Complicated: The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally and I’m aiming to have it out at the end of this year or beginning of the next. There’s a lot of frantic work between now and then and editing and proofing is only part of it. A book needs […]
The AFICTIONADO® Blog
Mid-week Maunder 5 August 2020
Been reading my way through Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. I don’t usually go for series, but to my mind, that’s a set of books with a small number of continuing characters who have a different adventure (or mystery) in each book but the characters don’t change (or grow) that much from book to book. […]
Mid-week Maunder 29 July 2020
Sequels, prequels and series. A lot of books have them, or are part of them (for series), and I’ve been getting that question, mostly for Accidental Warrior. So, have I thought about what happens to Hal and Bel after the end of the book? Well, yes. Have I decided to write a story about it? […]
Mid-week Maunder 22 July 2020
Relatively quiet week, trying to make sure I do some writing each day. My apologies if anyone has been looking for this blog on Goodreads. Something has happened to the RSS synch and it’s not coming through there, even though it does to the Amazon author page. I’m hoping this is easily fixed – that […]
Mid-week Maunder 15 July 2020
Working hard on a new story, which means days when it feels like it’s really coming together and other days when the predominant thought in my mind is, “Who would ever want to read this?” It’s always like that early on. I tell myself to tell the story and we’ll see when we get to […]
Mid-week Maunder 2 July 2020
I would like to wish everyone a happy 4th. It is certainly a difficult time this year, but I hope we can all enjoy our holiday. I’ve started on the idea for a new story and I find, as with everything I’ve written, that I have to start with a pad of paper and a […]