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Sunday, 22 November 2020

Deck the Halls

Started decorating the house with Winter/Yule/Christmas decorations. Just one new one a day as the season builds 🙂
 


Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Familiar Notes

November 18, 2020

It begins...


Tuesday, 17 November 2020

A New Notebook

November 17, 2020

I am happy with my new notebook. I am now ready to start outlining a new folk-horror novel - about a girl who stumbles upon something unusual in the forest...



Sunday, 15 November 2020

Seagull on his Pot of Gold

I woke up to this view out of my bedroom window this morning :)

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Saturday, 31 October 2020

A Halloween Woodland Walk

I went for a Halloween woodland walk through my local woods today, where I saw a witch!







 

Friday, 30 October 2020

Halloween Horror

 Continuing my Halloween horror viewing with this classic!




Thursday, 29 October 2020

A Bit of Morning Research

 I do love the research stage of writing a story. So many coalescing ideas. So many paths to choose from. Which route will I follow?

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Solstice 2 Research

 Making the most of a stormy autumn morning by doing a little research.

Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Story-boarding Solstice Story 2

I started story-boarding my second tale of Solstice today. This is the first major scene in Story 2 (there are a couple of minor set-up scenes preceding this) and details the hallucinatory occurrence that really gets the action going in the story. This is also the scene that is explained more fully (and rationally) in the third tale in the portmanteau series of connecting festive folk horror tales that will eventually feature in my forthcoming book Solstice. 

Story-boarding Solstice Story 2

I hope to get this second tale, which is titled Amanita muscaria, published initially as a stand-alone story later next year. In the meantime, the first title in the Solstice series, The Dryad, is available to purchase now from Amazon.

Saturday, 24 October 2020

Halloween Funko 2020 #8

Bringing this 2020's Halloween Funko photos to a close this year is... Nosferatu (stalking around our cat tower lol).






Friday, 23 October 2020

Solstice ~ Second Story Research

 


Halloween Funkos 2020 #7

 Mr. Edgar Allen Poe, stood before my very own writing desk :)

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Solstice ~ Story 2 Cover Design

One of my cats is easier to work with than the other :)



 

One Down, Three to Go...


The Dryad, the first of four connected festive folk horror short stories from my forthcoming portmanteau novel Solstice, has now been published (and is available here). One down, three to go...

Cracking on with Solstice ~ Story 2