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erastesRuddy freezing and Monsieur "too good to stay more than a month with you plebs"-Malfoy is off on one of his jaunts. This will be his fifth in a year. I've stopped worrying. At least Sevvie loves me.
I've just started "A Cold-blooded Scoundrel" by J S Cook (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joannesopercook) and I'm terribly impressed, it's nicely written (very), has good early forensics (to a layman's eyes) and begins with a bang. A burnt body and a bloody thumbprint in a cold Victorian London alley. So far it's highly recommended to those of you who like detective fiction. A nice bonus that her MC's are gay - but she didn't set out to write them that way according to this interview. I hope she continues her Inspector Devlin for a while, because I like him, even if I want to smack his repressed arse. I'll certainly be buying more at this rate if the book continues as well as it has so far. Watch out for a full review on Speak Its Name this week.
It's been a sad kinda of weekend as everyone's either been busy or.. um... busy! I need to find more writerly friends I can procrastinate with perhaps. or perhaps ... yanno.. write? Or get a life. Stop worrying where everyone is or something.
LindenBay have sent me a rough WIP cover for Frost Fair and it's partly what I was thinking of. I'm hoping with some tweaks we can make a lovely cover. However their insistence on having nekkid men on every cover they do baffles me. Personally I find THIS
or this 
much sexier than THIS.
Well, not SEXIER, per se, but I'd rather have a casually unbuttoned uniform, a loose cravat, perhaps a hand creeping under the jacket on the cover of my book than nakedness. But then I'm probably just weird.
Oh well, that's me done. Off to bed to warm up!
I've just started "A Cold-blooded Scoundrel" by J S Cook (
joannesopercook) and I'm terribly impressed, it's nicely written (very), has good early forensics (to a layman's eyes) and begins with a bang. A burnt body and a bloody thumbprint in a cold Victorian London alley. So far it's highly recommended to those of you who like detective fiction. A nice bonus that her MC's are gay - but she didn't set out to write them that way according to this interview. I hope she continues her Inspector Devlin for a while, because I like him, even if I want to smack his repressed arse. I'll certainly be buying more at this rate if the book continues as well as it has so far. Watch out for a full review on Speak Its Name this week.It's been a sad kinda of weekend as everyone's either been busy or.. um... busy! I need to find more writerly friends I can procrastinate with perhaps. or perhaps ... yanno.. write? Or get a life. Stop worrying where everyone is or something.
LindenBay have sent me a rough WIP cover for Frost Fair and it's partly what I was thinking of. I'm hoping with some tweaks we can make a lovely cover. However their insistence on having nekkid men on every cover they do baffles me. Personally I find THIS
or this much sexier than THIS.
Well, not SEXIER, per se, but I'd rather have a casually unbuttoned uniform, a loose cravat, perhaps a hand creeping under the jacket on the cover of my book than nakedness. But then I'm probably just weird.
Oh well, that's me done. Off to bed to warm up!
