Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
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?
Continue reading “Does Regency/Georgian era Steampunk exist?”
30 days
50,000 words
November 2013
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!
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?
I’ve just finished reading a couple of good books:
and
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
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.
The last time I posted I wrote about another band that had followed me on Twitter and mentioned they had a new album out today. While I was scrolling through Twitter this morning I saw a tweet from the band and thought I’d see if I could find the album on Spotify.
I was in luck.
Continue reading “‘Take Courage’ by The First: a release day review”
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