I’m excited to be able to announce that my second historical novel, Beyond the Veil, was recently released by Phaze Books. It seems I’ve been waiting for this to be published for ages, but when the release finally happened RL played an unkind trick on me and I wasn’t at my best, so I’m a [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Release of new novel, BEYOND THE VEIL, by Stevie Woods
Posted in Stevie Woods, writing, tagged historical novel, Phaze Books on July 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Brit Clinic #whatever *g*
Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, clinic, life on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eeek, I’ve just realised it’s the last Friday of the month today, and time for our latest Brit clinic. If there’s anybody out there, and not lazing by the pool eating ice cream, who wants to ask the combined Brains of Britain here a question, go right ahead.
As usual, please post your questions [...]
Cold Fire is now available!
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, writing, tagged Cold Fire on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I would proudly like to announce the ‘birth’ of my newest ebook Cold Fire.
This short story is the first fantasy that I have written but I am very proud of it. I hope that this book will be shortly followed by others linking into the story since this one touches upon planar travel, and of [...]
A very British quiz
Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, life, tagged quiz, weather on July 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This is just a lightning flash of fun – the BBC has a British summer weather quiz on its website right now. Pop along to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7509668.stm to test yourself against some surprisingly difficult questions. Mind you, I would say that. I only scored 3 out of 10…
History in the Making
Posted in Alex Beecroft, life on July 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been reading a book called ‘Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination’, by Peter Ackroyd, in which he examines popular thought and literature in Britain since the Saxons in order to identify common threads. That’s a book which deserves a post of its own, but more on that later. For now, I thought it [...]
Interview with Alex Beecroft and review
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At least, I’ve been interviewed by the inestimable Emma Collingwood, author of ‘Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased)’ over on her blog:
(Click on the picture to get to Emma’s blog)
As a person of obvious taste, Emma says :
INTERVIEW WITH ALEX BEECROFT
I’ve had the great pleasure to talk with Alex Beecroft about her work, her plans, fanfiction and [...]
Fly the bunting high – the church fete
Posted in Alex Draven, Britain, Society on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My fellow britwriters have covered many of the essential signs of a British summer already – Wimbledon, the seaside, steam fairs, celebrating the solstice, rain – but I have one more to add to the collage – village and church fetes!
These are community-run fund-raising days, and a chance for everyone to get together [...]
The Cost of Fuel
Posted in Britain, Fuel Prices, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, Society, life on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had this sent to me the other week by e-mail – I’ll let you read it before I comment.
We are hitting £108.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on [...]
