Elin Gregory

Guess what I've been doing today!

Making wig curlers out of air drying clay, that's what! Herself has decided she needs 50 of them so she can - well, to be honest I'm not entirely sure what she wants them for. I merely follow orders, right? Right.
Proper wig curlers are made from pipe clay and are smooth and white and look like little bones. Mine are made from terracotta and look like little lumpy double-ended willies. Probably nobody will notice. This makes me happy.

Another happiness is that I've got a guest on my Comfy Chair blog. Kiran Hunter, author of Bedevil, is answering questions about ghosts, inspiration and sequels and there's a very nice excerpt of Bedevil too. Bedevil is a terrific and quirky short story about a gay couple, one of whom inherits an old house with a very unusual sitting tenant. Come and show Bedevil and Kiran some love. :)

And finally please excuse me for squeeing a tiny bit - my pirate novel On A Lee Shore has been accepted for publication! :) I'm apologising in advance because I'll probably natter on about it a bit.

Sue Roebuck has just challenged me to get On A Lee Shore finished by next week.

I'm mentioning it here so those that care can mock me if i don't do it! :D

As of now:



Another 10 to 15 K should do it.

Anyone else up for a writing challenge?

Last night I discovered M Chandler's The Shadow of the Templar series on Lulu.com at the astounding price of 59p each for the ebooks. I read them aaaages ago online and loved them, so I bought them and made myself dopey by devouring the first 50 pages of the first in the series between midnight and 1am.

What baffles me is why these stories are on Lulu.com at all. They are VERY good fun. Need a bit of an edit maybe and Chandler subscribes to the school of thought [probably started by that dick Elmore Leonard] that one doesn't need to say WHO is speaking because it should be obvious from the context. This works okay with just 2 characters but with a quick fire banter session with six people all having their say it can get confusing. But that apart these are GOOD. Well worth the time of a publisher, I'd have thought. I just hope she gets plenty of sales, she deserves them.

My pirates are growing slowly at the astounding rate of 500 words a day *preens* and there have been relationship developments!!

Here ( have a snippet: )