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Guest Post: Dulcimers & Draughtsmen: Misconceptions of 18th Century Technology
Today I’m pleased to welcome to the blog a member of my online writing group, Rob Haines. He’s a veteran of last year’s Angry Robot Open Door month and wrote a book about warring chefs in an alternate...
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Step Right Up: London Launch, My First Blurb, and some links!
First order of business: Pantomime has an official London launch & venue: February 7th at the Forbidden Planet megastore, hooray! Thursday 07 February 2013 18:00 – 19:00 London Megastore, 179...
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2012 Restrospective: I’m Glad the World Didn’t End
2012 is almost done. And we’re all still here. This didn’t happen Last year, as I said in my previous end-of-year review, I landed a full-time, permanent job, which I am still in and I work for a great...
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Pantomime News
Been awhile since I did a general update of stuff, so here we go! 1. My launch at the London Forbidden Planet Megastore now has an event page. Please feel free to join if you wish to come or to invite...
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The Pantomime Blog Tour
My Blog Tour for Pantomime begins today, January 18th, and runs to February 7th currently, which is the UK launch date. Below are the places I will be appearing, and I’ll come back and edit as the...
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More Milestones
A few days ago, the final version of Pantomime arrived. This was a moment I’d been idly daydreaming about since I was 14, and maybe even earlier than that. It’s one of the last milestones–ones I’m...
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Pantomime Achievement Unlocked: Officially Published
Well. Today is Pantomime‘s US release date. I am now a published author. It’s so surreal. I woke up this morning and when I checked my phone, Caroline Hooton had tweeted me this photo of Pantomime in...
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Pantomime’s London Launch
The Forbidden Planet launch at London’s megastore on the 7th was wonderful. I flew down Wednesday night, and the journey ended up being rather farcical as I took: a car to the airport, the plane down...
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Pantomime’s Aberdeen Launch
Photo credit: Alex Silver Friday the 15th was my Aberdeen launch at the local Waterstones, for my friends and family who understandably couldn’t make it out to London. And wow. I moved to Aberdeen...
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A Day in Edinburgh: Guest Talk at Napier University
Photo credit: David Bishop Yesterday I went to Edinburgh to do a brief guest talk at Napier University for their MA Creative Writing students that are specializing in Genre. As a side note, I love that...
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The Literature Show on schmuFM
Photo credit: Colin Edwards Yesterday I made my first appearance on the radio for the local station schmuFM, 99.8, on the Literature Show. I chose a few songs, did a few readings, and answered some...
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Guest Post: Mike Stewart on Adding a Dash of Transmedia to your Writing
Today on the blog I have my fellow Inkbot, Mike Stewart. The Inkbots are an online writing group from the people who made it to the later rounds of Angry Robot’s two Open Door months. Mike has just...
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Shadowplay (Pantomime2) is Submitted!
So, a few days ago I pressed “send” and delivered Shadowplay to my editor at Strange Chemistry. It’ll be out on shelves in a little more than eight months, which is crazy to think. It’s another one of...
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After Publication: The Roller Coaster Doesn’t End
Getting published is always the goal, the end goal, what you aim for during all those nights and mornings of typing away at the keyboard. You spend so much energy thinking about finishing the book,...
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A Few Links
Just a flying visit with a few links of me out and about on the web: 1. I have a guest post on Gay YA called The Grey of Gender: Intersex and Gender Variant/Non-Binary Characters in YA 2. I...
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Out and About
Guest post on Strange Chemistry on my recent school visits to Dollar Academy, Keith Grammar, and Gordonstoun School I’ve made a page about my visits and events this year, including booking information...
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RT for a Chance to Win a Signed Pantomime!
Are you on Twitter? RT and follow me at @LR_Lam for a chance to win. Open internationally and ends Saturday at 12 BST. RT and follow for a chance to win a signed, personalised & numbered copy of...
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To Those Saying The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith Tanked: Please Stop.
The news broke over the weekend and so this is breaking to no one: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith was really written by none other than J.K. Rowling. She punked the publishing industry, and...
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Recent Links
I had an interview for the YA Debut Author Bash hosted by YA Reads over at Book Bandit‘s blog. She also wrote a nice review of Pantomime here. My agent, Juliet Mushens, has a great guest blog entry at...
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Shadowplay Edits Finished & New Blurb!
So…Shadowplay is back in my editor’s inbox! Hooray! It’s now more or less in the form it’ll be for ARCs, which is so very strange. It’s about to all start again. Then the day became even better…in the...
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