What I did in Waterstones...

During my trip this month to the UK I spoke on the Geek Feminism panel and sold books at the NineWorlds conference and did a live interview on BBC Radio Kent. Always good fun!

But I couldn’t help popping into Waterstones Tunbridge Wells to talk about the launch date for the next book, PERFIDITAS.

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INCEPTIO shortlisted for book award!

INCEPTIO has been shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award. There, I’ve managed to type that correctly with trembly fingers. It’s so exciting!

Here’s an extract from their site about the award: “The Rubery Book Award is the longest established book award based in the UK for independent and self published books. The key to […]

Not all self-published work is grey in the night

Not all self-published work is crap.

Not all mainstream books are good.

Many self-published works are excellent.

Many mainstream books are dire.

All true. But the demarcation between the two is blurring. A reader doesn’t give a toss who produced a book they love. The things they do notice are rubbishy covers, unintelligible blurb, coarse, […]