Book Blurb Friday - Seeing is Believing

The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.

Seeing is Believing Rick Schaeffer was quite a character on the science base at Fornost 3 and a brilliant xeno-biologist, apparently on the verge of a major discovery but now is missing. The only trace left is his trade-mark sunglasses, found on a nearby beach. For the base commander, Lindy Cleaver, it is a personal disaster on many levels. Admittedly her career would be ruined if TORA discovered that she had lost yet another employee; and it is true that Rick’s discovery would, finally, justify the vast expense of the Fornost mission, but Lindy is secretly carrying Rick’s child and grief threatens to derail her completely. With just two weeks to go before a visit by TORA executives, Lindy must pull herself together and solve the enigma of Rick’s disappearance; a mystery that is only deepened once she sees the planet through Rick's sunglasses.

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Book Blurb Friday - Stonework - and thanks for waiting!

The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.

Stonework Bert Entwhisle, proprietor of Entwhistle’s Curiosity Emporium, has a tongue smoother than silk and sweeter than honey. No woman, it seems, is immune from his charms. Harpies gather his wares from the four corners of the world, Medusa delivers a nice a line in garden ornaments, and Sibyl gives him betting tips. With sirens behind the counter, the Emporium has never been busier and the Sphinx’s riddle book is a run-away success. Then it all goes horribly wrong when Medusa accidentally turns the King’s favourite daughter to stone. The King wants to kill Medusa, which is understandable and one way of restoring the princess. Unfortunately he also wants to execute Bert. Bert is going to have to sweet talk like never before to find a less drastic cure and save his own skin; a quest that looks set for the one place he really doesn’t want to go.

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My Book Blurb Friday will now be Saturday

Today has been a tad hectic. Actually the whole week has been.

It is Holy Week, with the service of compline (night prayer) Monday to Wednesday, Maundy Thursday service and today:
Walk of Witness around the parish from 9am
Service at 11 am
Meditation at 2pm (which I was co-leading)
Handel's Messiah in the evening.

So tomorrow I will come and blog ... do come back and visit!

Publication Day!

Not one, but two publications today!

Not novels just yet, but from little acorns ....

The first is a twitter fiction at Cuento Magazine (@cuentomag) and can be found at


and the second is a flash fiction at Weirdyear which can be found at www.weirdyear.com

Please do leave a comment on the Weirdyear site - it's good for them to know that I bring readers to their site!

Book Blurb Friday - Danger in Discovery

The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.

Danger in Discovery Katy Wilder is a physicist and believes only in what she can understand and explain. She is working hard on her PhD thesis and has no time for distractions. Jim Lenham is everything that Katy despises. He’s a dreamer, never seems to take life seriously and believes in magic. And right now he’s proving to be quite a distraction. When Jim shows Katy what appears to be irrefutable proof of a magic spring and asks her to go with him to look for it, she agrees, much to her own surprise. Is she going for the chance to make a new scientific discovery, or is Jim affecting her more than she is willing to admit? As Jim and Katy travel deep into the mountains, they soon find themselves at the mercy of mysterious forces. With their lives in danger, will magic or science save them?

145 words.

Book Blurb Friday - Bolt from the Blue

The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.

Bolt from the Blue The Portuguese government thought they were on to a winner, selling off the town of Castelo de Sonhos to the Alpha Centaurians in order to clear the national debt. Unfortunately they forgot to exclude the citizens. When Carlos de Manuez woke after a particularly vivid dream of being sucked down a plughole, he found the sky was orange and sported three suns. Worse, the streets were full of blue tourists. Then he met an unpronounceable girl and his life changed. She was beautiful, azure and slightly over-endowed with limbs. With the aid of an over-stressed translator, she told a horrified Carlos the truth about the Centaurians. What can Carlos and the unpronounceable girl do in the face of her compatriots’ evil plans? Getting a better translator might help; so would learning eleven dimensional mathematics. Unfortunately they have just six days. Assuming the translator got that bit right.

147 words.

Haiku Wednesday - Growth

Sensational Haiku Wednesday


You know ... that Blog?

Today's topic is Growth

	Yesterday was weak Today is holding its own Tomorrow is strength
	Lines on the door frame Their names leapfrogging upwards So competitive!

Book Blurb Friday - Life Blood

First of all - apologies for my slightly unexpected absence. I'll share more on that tomorrow.
Thank you to those of you who were concerned.

Now, on with the show ...



The lovely Lisa at Writing in the Buff hosts Book Blurb Friday. Each week Lisa posts a pretend book cover to fire our imaginations. Our task is to write the book blurb for the back cover in 150 words or less.

Life Blood Every millennium, a single drop of the Goddess’s blood falls to the ground, and from it, grows one blood red bloom that will grant it’s finder a thousand years of immortality. Now, deep in the Kellmar Forest, the bloom summons the favoured few who are sensitive to its sweet call, but they must hurry; the bloom will wither in just seven days. Amuk wants a cure for his dying sister Jorran wants fabulous wealth Maya wants to find true love King Varik wants to conquer the world Kari just wants to be happy. Kellmar Forest is a dark and forbidding place that threatens to destroy them all, unless they can learn to work together. Who will achieve their heart’s desire? What is the secret that will change everything?

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... and yes, I do know what the secret is, and who it is that achieves their heart's desire!

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