#Pagan #Introduction Hello. After many years at sea I settled in a small wooded valley on the south Devon coast with my wife and our three daughters, now with four grandchildren too, and our long succession of beloved companion dogs and cats. I am dedicated to the Morrigan, and the Irish god Manannon Mac Lir ("Son of the Sea") is my honoured guide in the Otherworld.
nostr:npub10n9kwhemskr7uzjrp7ltr4nj9j6fdl5vkv0u8vc56u9tsfwh84hsrdtjug Iain Banks, for his fiction of course and especially his brilliant SF, but equally for his forthright outspokenness against vile capitalist beliefs and behaviour, which I first discovered when I was pre-published and people were warning me that to continue speaking out would ruin my prospects as an author.
Astoundingly good book from nostr:npub1cazdtvf88zu2j56zq6vzh2mzcjt99my5exdafswany47nlp9yggq50vv9e - I really savoured this one. the title #AnImmenseWorld is not wrong - I wondered as I started it just how much you can write about how animals sense the world. It turns out you can write a lot and every single page glimmers with wonder, delight, new insights and knife sharp writing.
I enjoyed his previous book very much too, but this is book of the year if not book of the decade territory.
Simply superb.
#summerReadingChallenge
nostr:npub14k23hl0c7a0ecs42wndgxg4l7w9ve03jtdlg48hvj93zdtq2cf9q3ted68 nostr:npub1cazdtvf88zu2j56zq6vzh2mzcjt99my5exdafswany47nlp9yggq50vv9e Thank you for this recommendation. It sounds wonderful and I'm away to order a copy now.
nostr:npub1j8m6n55er97404gz59f35yt7h22lqh9dk5algdxlnza90paca7hsk5v5r7 This is beautiful. Your art is serene and your magic truthful. Thank you. I've subscribed to your YouTube channel.
#WritingWonders Day 1 Intro, and which side character I'd hang out with:
I write SFF novels and short stories and nonfiction solo, and magical 1930s England detective fiction with nostr:npub1z53s9xh569ts3cwmyn4vp89agalkysfsx5c5xlkt42xjga3xdyvs75s6p4.
In a short story in my 2nd Collection WIP, there's this jazz singer vampire....