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The Obedience of Fools; text completed and undergoing an edit and proof read to nail down the obvious glitches and grammatical goof ups. The...

Down to the last couple of hours local time, and NaNoWriMo starts again; The Obedience of Fools is on the back-burner for the next month and...

New chapters have gone up this afternoon, taking the story a further.. The Obedience of Fools  at smashwords.com, help yourself, it is a wor...

Smashwords: Smashwords and OverDrive to Bring 200,000+ Indie E... : Imagine if your indie eBook was purchasable by thousands of public libra...

Spring is starting to break out, the first green shoots are struggling through the damp and cold, stretching for the warmth and deep insi...

Maybe the question should be where does the name come from? A comment from a fellow Commonwealther to this blog said the name piqued her cur...

Happy New Year to everyone,: Iceline has just gone live at feedbooks.com as a free download , readers and comments are welcome. Enjoy it,...

With three and a bit days left the word count tumbled over the 50,000 mark and the validation screen verified the total (50188). Result: Th...

New material for the Obedience of Fools , this year's NaNoWriMo entry, updated and free to download. Very much a work in progress an...

Do you think NaNoWriMo is craziness squared, 50,000 words in 30 days, OK, shift the perspective and walk another path. Imagine this; you...

Definitely didn't expect this. A month ago I was struggling to pull together an idea for NaNoWriMo, then The Duck Test began to formula...

David Gaughran has a considered response to the events involving WH Smith and Kobo in the UK and Victoria Strauss at Writer's Beware  h...

Remember, Remember, the first of November; complete loss of reason and plot No characters or story,  a vain lust for glory, its Nano tim...

It has to be true, halfway through September and the Halloween goblins are locked in a bitter struggle for shelf space with the Christmas fa...

Long. lazy days, sunshine, time and space in the garden or on the beach, or simply time to catch up on your reading, you can't do it wit...

The Office of Letters and Light Blog .Just had a few minutes reading the post from Camp Nanowrimo, the first challenge went off in April a...

Iceline, the first of The Grange novels took a long time to get where it is today, and the delay was not down to the amount of rewriting it ...

Names, our own personal keywords, the labels that pick us out from the crowd and are almost never chosen by ourselves, even the characters i...

One week to go, seven nights from tonight World Book Night will be with us!  Have you anything lined up yet? To celebrate;  Iceline...