It’s wild to be able to say this, but Shot in the Dark was published THREE WHOLE MONTHS ago. It simultaneously feels like my debut novel has been out in the world forever, and yet I can’t believe how little time has passed since I held the finished copies in my hands. Having a bookContinue reading “Three months”
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July and August reads
Since I didn’t read many books in July, I decided to lump my July and August book reviews together. I then proceeded to read all the books in the known universe in August, so prepare yourself for an inordinate amount of bookish SHOUTING… We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian is a historical queerContinue reading “July and August reads”
June reads
June was a rather glorious reading month – I thoroughly enjoyed every single one of these books, but I’ve restrained myself to only SHOUTING about five of them. Such restraint. Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella is such an interesting romp into toxic masculinity and heteronormative behaviour, all told through via a bored gay werewolf.Continue reading “June reads”
Signing
May not be perfect If you’re anything like me, then you’ve daydreamed extensively about signing your first publishing contract. For me, this moment came at the end of long years of drafting and hoping and redrafting and wishing and reredrafting. There had been crushing rejections and moments of hope, encouragement and criticism, and a wholeContinue reading “Signing”
Debut
But not the first I started writing my first novel about ten years ago. It was a speculative YA that I worked my bum off to make the very best it could be before I sent it off to agents. While querying that, I wrote a (terrible) YA trilogy set during a zombie apocalypse. AfterContinue reading “Debut”
May reads
If you’re here, you probably quite like books so I’m not going to apologise for the bumper load of bookish SHOUTING you’re about to encounter… Glitterland is yet more proof that Alexis Hall is physically incapable of writing a bad novel. I was wary of this one as I knew it handled some fairly heavyContinue reading “May reads”
April reads
I read some absolute GEMS over April. After a couple of months of not feeling like I had much reading oomph, I am back to being wildly in love with falling into other people’s worlds… Too Hot To Sleep is Elspeth Wilson’s debut poetry pamphlet. It’s perfect for fans of The Sims and Teen Wolf,Continue reading “April reads”
March reads
I had a lush reading month in March. Loads of stories that swept me straight into the action and characters I couldn’t help but fall in love with. It was such a good reading month that I have FIVE books to SHOUT about… Welcome to St. Hell by Lewis Hancox is a hopeful and heartfeltContinue reading “March reads”
Submission Thoughts
Things I wish someone had said to me before my book was submitted to publishers Being on submission to publishers is a weird, mysterious time. There’s a certain level of secrecy around the whole thing, which sometimes becomes not talking about it at all. At least not publicly. I wanted to chat about the thingsContinue reading “Submission Thoughts”
February reads
I had a LUSH reading month in February – I even read a book that I think could be my favourite of the WHOLE HECKING YEAR! And it’s this – Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman. This could broadly be called a romcom, and it does contain some of those elements, but for me thisContinue reading “February reads”
Anna Britton 