Super Orange

Kitsnaps: Super Orange

If I’m clever I might go back before the blooms fade and find out what some of these flowers are, but, er, don’t count on it. They’re cheerful, though! :)

Reader Questions: process & projects

Joliene asks: [What] drives your writing and keeps the juices flowing? What are the project ideas you have in the works, now that The Walker Papers is being put to bed??? Occasionally what my publisher is looking for drives my writing ideas–that’s what prompted the Strongbox Chronicles, for example, and it’s behind one of the projects I’m putting together now. Far more often, though, it’s a random comment or thought that ends up getting terribly out of control. :) I’ve mentioned before that the Walker Papers were born out of…

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Patreon push!

So we’re doing prety well with the MAGIC & MANNERS Patreon project, having worked our way up to $144 commited toward new chapters in the past ten days or so. To reiterate how it works: you, the patron, pledge to donate whatever small amount you wish toward a new chapter of MAGIC & MANNERS–$.25, $.50, $1, $5–whatever you like! When the pledged donations reach $250, I post a new chapter and press the collection button. If donations remain at $250, the next week I post another chapter, and so on…

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Palm House

Kitsnaps: Palm House

My favourite of the Botanic Gardens greenhouses, just because it’s so bloody massive. There are indeed palms and ferns growing all the way up to the top of it, too. A body could nearly get lost in there, or wish she could, anyway…

Picoreview: Shadow Recruit

Picoreview: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit: muuuuuch better than I expected. I mean, it’s a popcorn movie, don’t get me wrong, but I like popcorn movies and this one served up nicely. It turns out I rather like Chris Pine, maybe especially when he’s not being lit by lens flares along his razored cheekbones (I already knew I liked his voice better when I couldn’t see him, thanks to his voicing Jack Frost in Guardians of Easter or whatever that movie was :)), and he was more approachable and endearing as…

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