If you’re not already aware of my Sci Fi tendencies – this is probably your first visit to this blog – so welcome. Given my childhood love for Mr Spock, what else am I going to do on my New Mexico visit than go talk to Aliens. No, not the fake ones at Roswell.…
So –Janet and John take a holiday (vacation for my American friends) and where do we go? The middle of nowhere of course…. But not just any nowhere. A radioactive nowhere in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Last year, while mucking about on the Internet (as one does), I discovered that on…
A funny thing happened a couple of months ago – I became a knitter. It started like this…. I was in Canada, looking for a birthday present for a friend of mine who is Canadian but lives in the U.K. I thought a Canadian present might be nice. My friend has been known to knit.…
Here’s a bit of a confession – I am a Science Fiction nut. (OK – the Twilight Zone Blog back in November was probably a bit of a hint). It’s therefore not surprising that a few nights ago, I was seated in the balcony of a New York theatre – watching William Shatner’s one man…
I’m currently writing a section of my new book set at an outback race meeting, and a thought occurred to me… every book I’ve written has horses in it somewhere. I decided that couldn’t be right, but when I stopped long enough to think about it…. Matt – the hero of The Farmer needs A…
Merry Christmas everyone … And may 2012 be FAB-U-LOUS for you and those you love. Janet XX
At a recent event, I was lucky enough to hear a reading from Audrey Niffenegger – author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. She read a short story – written in response to the closure of a bookshop that she really loves… In this story – she suggested that heaven is a great library – and…
On a weekend excursion into upstate New York, we stopped for lunch at a small town called Binghamton. It was an unremarkable town, in which we ate a reasonable but unremarkable lunch. But all that changed as we walked back to the car. Outside the high school, we stumbled across a sign erected in honour…
Imagine sitting in a tiny cottage, snowbound in a winter where the sun never peeks over the horizon – and a book lets you escape into the sweltering heat of the great Aussie outback! It’s a thought that makes me smile – because that book is going to be one of mine… I’ve just…
