Month: <span>June 2011</span>

Tick Tock

I feel as though I’ve spent a lot of time working on this author site today.  No, I know I’ve spent a lot of time on it!  Time that I should really have been using for some writing competitions that I’d like to enter.

Too many competitions really.  Or maybe there isn’t such a thing as too many competitions.

I get a magazine called Writing Magazine (I know, it does what it says!) and they have a lot of competitions listed inside, not just their own but for all sorts of different places.  It used to be that I’d pick up a copy of any kind of writing competitions list and not find anything that was aimed at the genre I enjoy writing.  But now, it’s as though there’s a sudden boom in the fiction industry as a whole, particularly things like Dark Fantasy.  Perhaps because of vampires getting a re-vamp.  No pun intended!

Oh, I hope these competitions aren’t looking for sparkles.  Unless my MC gets herself a glue gun and some glitter, no one is going to have any.


Welcome!

I feel as though this should be a welcome post.  I definitely want to welcome people to my blog! 🙂  But other than actually saying “welcome!”, I’m not really sure what to put here.

Take a look around the site, check out the “About” section to learn a little bit about me 🙂 and later I’ll be adding a section with samples of my work and probably other goodies too.

I write what used to all be lumped under the Horror genre, even if it wasn’t horrific, but now is split into Urban Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Supernatural Fiction, Paranormal Romance…  I think a specific genre for my work will become apparent after I’ve finished the novel I’m working on.  But until that time, I cross a blurry line between Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy (that’s a blurry line in itself!) and Supernatural Fiction.

Anyway, make yourself at home!  I’ll be settling into the site properly in a few weeks and will then post regularly about my writing and progressing to publication.