I should have known posting every day would be too much to keep up, especially with a week of moving items out of two stores in Southend into the new store in Cambs, ready for the day (week, month, year) the boat is ready. We hired a crafter van – from a well known rather […]
Tag Archives: musing
Aug
05
Is it me?
posted by MoreThanACat
Or have the programmers of the spam algorithm ceased to be creative types on a gap year? I don’t know about you guys, but I used to enjoy reading through my queued comments: snickering at the syntax errors; shaking at the side-splittingly crude attempts to make out I’m the best thing since sliced… spam; […]
Aug
27
An Avuncular
posted by MoreThanACat
My mind today has been exercised by the concept of an “Avuncular”. Good word isn’t it? Very underused I feel. So I set about redressing this… One of my characters is being an “avuncular”, and – while I’d like to think he is operating from the purest of motives – at the back of my […]
Recent Posts: Sarah E Smith
A Line In The Sand
One of my characters in Widowhood of Spiders (book 2 of Symington’s adventures) is angry. So angry in fact he is in danger of breaking the unwritten code of the criminal world: twice. Not only is he in the process of killing a policeman; he is doing it in front of witnesses – not bound […]
Engineering Rows
This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking rather than a lot of writing. Being stuck in traffic is like that. And I’ve been thinking about my victim. Well one of them. A chap by the name of Sir Martin Hamblebee. In my head he’s a nasty piece of work. A bully. A pompous […]
5 Questions for Authors: Ann Wuehler
Until recently, all I knew about Ann was that she wrote for the same publisher as I do (KGHH), and lives in the same state as my cousin (Oregon). So I asked her to give me a bit of a biography, which was a good thing because her writing credentials are epic. Make me feel […]
Relaunching 2022
More than a Cat 