Another Year in the Bag It’s hard to believe another year has zoomed by. Always seems I just get used to recording the new year, and then, whoosh!, time has sped past me while I have had my nose in flowers, my thoughts it stories, and my hands either in dirt or paint. But, here we go. It’s December. just 18 days until January 1, 2025. From my brain to the keyboard My output of…
Long time no post It’s been since June I last posted any updates or information, mostly reviews. May through October are months busy with gardening and harvesting, so there’s little oomph left in the old girl to actually apply myself to writing a blog post and keeping followers apprised of what I’m up to, what I’m writing (or not), what I’m painting (or not). You get the picture. So, here I am at the end…
Grey Dog Elliott Gish ISBN 9781770417328 400 pages Release: April 9, 2024 Publisher: ECW Press Young, talented, well-acquainted with 18th and 19th century gothic horror and dark fiction, Elliot Gish has launched her debut novel, which is relatively accomplished, and certainly makes for an interesting read. What is the novel about? The marketing blurb: The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd ― spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist ― accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for…
Autokrator Emily A. Weedon ISBN 9781770866850 440 pages Release: April 13, 2024 Publisher: Cormorant Books Autokrator, the debut novel by Emily A Weedon, brings with it some perceived credibility: Weedon is a Canadian Screen Award winner for best writing in a webseries. She’s also won or been nominated for 10 other screen writing awards. And she’s represented by Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory. The novel is published by Cormorant Books, a Toronto-based publisher with a reputation for producing accessible,…
Him Geoff Ryman ISBN 9781915202673 376 pages Release: December 5, 2023 Publisher: Angry Robot I must admit I became enamoured of Geoff Ryman’s work after reading The King’s Last Song, a superb tale which relates the story of an archaeologist working on the stupendous site of Angkor Wat where he finds a book of golden leaves which is a memoir written by Jayavarman Seven, one of the first Buddhist kings in Cambodia. The second story reveals the contents of the memoir…