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Sunday snippet

Sunday snippet

Second last day in New York. Le sad. But hey, let's cheer ourselves up with a Sunday Snippet from The Devil in Denim (Book 1 of The New York Saints series).

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Friday and Saturday

A few more pics from New York. On Friday I walked along the High Line and found an art store 😀 (where I was very restrained) and on Saturday, Barbara and I had a lovely trip to Staten Island where we had a great time at Cassandra's book club (hi everyone!) and then...

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Sunday snippet

Hopefully when this posts, I'm in New York, yay! Both for being in New York and being organised enough to schedule some blog posts :D! Today's Sunday Snippet is from Shadow Kin, Book 1 of The Half-Light City series.

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Hello from New York

Hello from New York

I'm still a bit jetlagged but here are some pics from the first two days in New York! (From the Natural History Museum and the Met). More when I'm a bit more coherent!

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Up up and away

Up up and away

I'm jumping on a plane very early in the morning and heading here: Two weeks of research and (hopefully) art and seeing friends and the RWA conference. Fun! I will be blogging over the next two weeks but the schedule may be not my normal days, so just watch this...

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Sunday snippet

Sunday snippet

So I've decided to do some Sunday snippets for the rest of the year and am going to just pick a bunch from both MJ and Melanie books. So it will be a surprise each week. But first up, one from The Wolf Within, Book 1 in my Wild Side UF trilogy.  

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Story fix – Sense8

So the latest Netflix Original series is a very unique piece of quasi spec fic relationship drama called Sense8. It's made by the Wachowskis who made the Matrix (so if you've seen that movie/s you know they're into some intriguing concepts in their SF). It's the kind...

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What’s going on?

What’s going on?

In the life of Mel, things remain much the same. I am working on Playing Fast. I am writing many lists in preparation for going to NY and RWA soon. I am watching too many episodes of the Great British Bake Off on youTube and subsequently wanting to BAKE ALL THE...

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Music fix: Damien Rice

A slightly older song but one that popped into my head today.  I first stumbled across Damien Rice via the credits of Closer which use his song The Blower's Daughter. Closer is a brilliant, dark, kind of depressing film (I remember sitting in the cinema and noticing...

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