I’ve just been checking my site stats and September this year was the second busiest month, after May. I am also on course to reach my goal to views this year. Just another 400 before the year ends.
Author Archives: R Cawkwell
Hi I'm Rosemarie and I like to write. I write short stories and longer fiction, poetry and occasionally articles. I'm working on quite a few things at the minute and wouldn't mind one day actually getting published in print.
Does Regency/Georgian era Steampunk exist?
I quite like Steampunk as a genre and I’m reading a couple of Steampunk novels for review at the moment, but I’d like to know why they are all set in the mid to late nineteenth century and if there is anyone writing steampunk set in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries?
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A month ’til NaNoWriMo 2013
30 days
50,000 words
November 2013
Second draft complete!
Wow, it’s taken a few months but my second draft – otherwise known as getting it all typed up – of my short story collection is finally finished!
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Fantasy is a dirty word?
I write a fair bit of fantasy, and have read an awful lot as well. I never understood why people think that ‘genre’ fiction is lower quality than ‘literary’ fiction. Small mindedness and ignorance maybe?
Criminally good books
I’ve just finished reading a couple of good books:
Silent Witnesses
Nigel McCrery
and
The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton
And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press
Jeremy Clay
Cold Summer
Second Attempt. Lets hope it saves what I write this time.
Yesterday I had another band follow me on Twitter, a post-hardcore quartet from Wakefield called
Cold Summer
I knew it was a bad idea to start writing about the bands that follow me on Twitter
Because another band has followed me. Once I start something I have to carry on. Plus I like helping people. So despite my reservations, I’m going to write about the latest band to follow my Twitter account.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 