Good morning, after working on the ‘Hit & Miss Bibliomancy’ exercise on Wednesday and Thursday I am finally ready to unveil a sample of the short story that resulted from the three words I chose.
Review: ‘A God-Blasted Land: The Bastard Cadre # 1’ by Lee Carlon
Clockwork Samurai
Originally published 2011, this edition published October 2013
The first of three e-books published so far (the forth is in progress) about a group of young people bound from birth by magic to a gods Chosen representative. Set on a ravaged planet where cities have fallen into ruin, technology and magic co-exist, and the decimated population is ruled by a small group of Chosen and policed by the Bondsmen.
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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 15
Today I’m working on exercise 1 of the eleventh section of ‘Back to Creative Writing School’. This section is called ‘Hit and Miss Bibliomancy’.
Review: ‘Ranger Martin and The Zombie Apocalypse’ by Jack Flacco
Interesting review, I might have to nag the library in to ordering the book for me
Setting the record straight on the historical relationship between England and Germany: http://t.co/MHc2t8Bo0k — History Today (@HistoryToday)
30 Days if Creative Writing: Day 14
Four days late is better than not at all. As I mentioned on Friday this exercise is about music and writing. As I mentioned on Saturday, these exercises are taking longer to complete and require more work to do so. I’ve got exercise 10 finished now though.
Random organisational aside
When, or possibly if, I get my laptop back I’m going to have to update the review indices.
Review: ‘The House on Blackstone Moor’
Carole Gill
Creativia
2013
When nineteen year old Rose Baines returns home from visiting a dying aunt and finds her Mother, sister, and brother massacred by her mad, abusive ex-barrister and now dead Father, her life falls apart.
First she’s shipped off to Bedlam and then, through the intervention of a suspiciously understanding doctor, to Marsh Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire. Through the good offices of a patroness of the asylum she gets a position as governess to two children at a house on the moors.
Not everything is as it seems; Miss Baines must defeat the ultimate evil and suffer terribly before she takes a final decision and finds love and a measure of peace.
Review:Sherlock Series 3 Episode 3
BBC 1
8.30 pm
12th January 2014
Well that was an amazing end to the series.
Do you want spoilers? I suppose I should give you a clue.
CAM is revealed to be Charles Augustus Magnusson (Lars Mikkelson), a man with more influence and information on everyone, even than Mycroft. CAM is a newspaper magnate with too much influence on the government. Mycroft warns Sherlock to back off, but that’s no going to happen and we all know it.
Sherlock solves the problem as he always does, but Mycroft has to intervene and prepares to send his brother in to exile.
Until an old enemy reappears to call him home.
BOOK BLITZ: DOUBLE HAPPINESS BY TONY BRASUNAS
It’s the first time I’ve taken part in a virtual book tour, but it’s been a pleasure. Book review to follow, on 31st January.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 