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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. If you want to stay up to date with my writing and bookbinding, sign up to my (roughly) monthly email newsletter. You’ll get everything I write, for free, and you’ll hear about Kickstarter projects before anyone else so that you can nab the juiciest rewards. Simply fill in the form below and you’ll be sent links and discount codes for the ebooks in mobi and epub format when you have confirmed your email. Matt is fa...
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Authors, books and choices — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Authors, books and choices. June 21, 2014. Doing the rounds this morning on Twitter is a rather forthright review by Christopher Priest. 8230;Starvie, who has been fashioned to resemble a sex-goddess. Starvie. Sex-goddess. This doesn’t bode well. There’s also a distinctly dodgy passage in the middle of the book, when the unappealing Fatty and the unemotional Kenstibec plan to send a compliant Starvie out as a sexua...
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Don’t you think Amazon looks tired? — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Don’t you think Amazon looks tired? August 11, 2014. Amazon recently returned fire at Hachette and Authors United. With a particularly ill-considered new website, Readers United. Authors United is a group of 900 authors, published by all sorts of companies not just Hachette, who support Hachette and are calling on Amazon to end their sanctions against Hachette authors. John Scalzi has a great post. Now, let’s pull ...
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Strange noises in the chimney — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Strange noises in the chimney. July 15, 2014. It turns out that we have a nest of chimney swifts. I did try to record the sounds of our swifts specifically, and my phone did take a hit of bird poop in the process, but the resulting video was too quiet to be useful. I will try again tomorrow.). Chimney swifts are classed as ‘near threatened’. Comments on this entry are closed. Subscribe to my newsletter. Matt is fas...
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Amazon’s offers are pure propaganda — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Amazon’s offers are pure propaganda. July 8, 2014. Amazon then suggested a slush fund for Hachette’s authors affected financially by Amazon’s sanctions against the publisher. Hachette declined that “offer”. So now Amazon has floated the idea that it and Hachette both forego their usual cut of sales and instead give 100% to the authors. Hachette has again declined, saying:. Hachette is absolutely right to reject Ama...
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Fiction — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Due to new VAT laws in the EU, I am no longer able to sell ebooks directly to my readers, but I will be making them available to my mailing list subscribers after the New Year. All ebooks are available as EPUB for Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch and Android tablets, and as MOBI for Kindle and Mobipocket readers. Queen of the May. Read a sample chapter. Finally, Matt can resist no longer. H...
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The Lacemaker — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. All the threads looked the same to the innocent eye, but Maude could see the black heart running up through one strand as it wove its way through the lace roundel. How on earth do you manage it? The woman asked, as she looked at the mats on the craft fair stall. Maude chose to treat the question as a rhetorical one and busied herself with tidying her bobbins as the woman browsed. Subscribe to my newsletter. Matt is...
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Queen of the May — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Queen of the May. Queen of the May. Is a faerie story, insofar as it’s a story with faeries in it, but by the same token it’s also science fiction. Suw started writing it in September 2011. And why does she bustle in my hedgerow? Read a sample chapter. Or read the whole thing, right here, right now, for free. Subscribe to my newsletter. Queen of the May. All the threads looked the same to the innocent eye, but Maud...
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Loving an alien, part 2 — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Loving an alien, part 2. July 2, 2014. When I was 16, I probably would have laughed in your face if you’d said that I’d marry. And an American, to boot! You’re ‘avin’ a larf, mate. And even if I had believed you, it wouldn’t have done me any good without the advice I am about to give you. 1 Make a list of everywhere you’ve ever lived. 8221;, though given that the majority of my landlords have been either bonkers or...
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