Monthly Archives: March 2013

Cookies and smut

I’m not a huge fan of the chocolate-chip cookie, but every now and then I want one.  My local drugstore had an amazing sale the other day, with a box of cookies at about half the price of the name … Continue reading

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Victorian Morals take a hit — Chime by Franny Billingsley

I’ve posted a few times on the persistence of Victorian Morals in girls’ fantasy, and how they lead to characters who do the self-sacrifice thing even absent any supernatural justification.  So I was pretty interested to come across a YA fantasy … Continue reading

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Satire vs. Fantasy: the tug-of-war

When my agent was marketing ‘Advice From Pigeons’ around, he sent me all the rejection e-mails.  I wasn’t sure whether I was grateful or not, but one of them stuck in my mind and has popped up every now and … Continue reading

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The Point-of-View Mosaic

Editing and marketing have made me dive back into my Royal Academy Trilogy after almost a year since I finished the third book.  In the interim, I’ve been working on a single point-of-view novel with a YA protagonist.  So going … Continue reading

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