The Last Jedi fanfic roundup

So, in between getting some good wordage done on Little Somerby book 3 (and having a cracking idea for the climactic scene of *gasp* book 5!) I’ve been writing Star Wars fanfic again, and I thought it might be a good idea to post  list of links and fic summaries for those who might be inclined to […]

Fannish Obsessions and Feelgood Fiction

I’ve written about fandom a lot, and I’m sure I write at least one blog post a year where I explain just how much an impact falling in love with books, films, TV shows and plays has had on my writing life, but since it’s happened again after I saw The Force Awakens and The Last […]

Le Geek, c’est chic (and so the Force Awakens)

**CAUTION! ONE SPOILER FOR STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI AT THE END OF THIS POST** OK, I admit it. And I’m sure this will come as a total surprise (not). I have always been a bit of a fangirl. Back from the time I first encountered the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon as an eight year old, to journeys […]

Feeling the (Dance) Magic…

This weekend I took Daughter #1 to the Curzon Cinema in Clevedon (Europe’s oldest functioning cinema, don’t you know?) to experience a special screening of the 1986 Jim Henson classic, Labyrinth. Much like, as the Bristol Evening Post recently rather sneeringly put it, quite a few viewers ‘of a certain age’, Labyrinth  was memorable for me, and […]