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The month rolls to an end, and as climate change disasters shift the seasons around – due to extremely dry conditions here after that heatwave we’ve got something some people are calling a false autumn, trees losing leaves and all – I reflect how lucky I am to have you here, interested enough in my… Continue reading August. (AIgust? Alchemust?)

Where to start? It’s been a hot minute (or twelve) since I last did a proper monthly-ish bloggy update, and, wow, that heatwave over here was brutal. Not so much for the total temperature so much as the fact that locally it went from a high of like 24 Centigrade to 38 Centigrade (75 to… Continue reading June ran past July

Mouse Cage has, at last, been released!Details in the release thread on twitter: https://twitter.com/foozzzball/status/1547128112378429441And on my website: https://sinisbeautiful.com/mouse-cage/Mouse Cage is available in ebook and paperback from Amazon (US), (UK), or find it on Goodreads.

It may be June, but I have yet to properly notice. I have re-read Mouse Cage (doing proofing and other minor polish) three times in a little bit over a week. It is not a short book, and that is after doing nothing but hammer on this book for... I don’t know how long.I’m happy… Continue reading It May be June, but…

April may be over, but I have barely noticed.I am in the process of making final tweaks to the Mouse Cage manuscript. The book’s complete, but I have another two weeks before the last proofing pass, and I intend to use them.Can I tweak the opening for more emotional resonance? What happens if I try… Continue reading April May Be Over…

I’ve largely been keeping my head down while working on getting Mouse Cage ready. All my little paranoias are coming back out to roost even as the manuscript approaches the point I can re-read it to enjoy it, admittedly, but progress is fairly hopeful on the whole.Trouble is, every time I manage to put my… Continue reading Quick March

Yeah. Uh. February got way more exciting than it was supposed to be.The Russian invasion of Ukraine has eaten up a lot of my attention, understandably.I have relatively little commentary to make as a science fiction author of occasional military SF, given that I write about fiction, but I will offer a reminder that war… Continue reading Frigging February

A brand new season begins. My idiosyncratic calendar of three seasons a year has tipped over into spring – which I, personally, find a surprise given how cold it’s been over my way. Spring is all about new growth and bringing things out of dormancy to full bloom, however, and that is definitely on the… Continue reading Jaunting into January

Hello, at the dawn of 2022. I hope your holidays have been well, and that your year ahead is looking if not outright hopeful, at least like something you can shape into something better.My year ahead? That’s definitely a mix, some hopeful, some scary, but there’s a lot of room to sculpt it, and I’ve… Continue reading Departing December

Okay, so, first up – I am going to be upping the prices on my self-published efforts as of January 2022.The short, quick explanation is that if I sell around 500 copies of a work (Dog Country has, if we factor in the Kindle Unlimited thing, sold around 450-500 copies) I, at present, earn back… Continue reading Remixing November

A friend of mine goes in for open water swimming. I’ve never tried it, or gone to watch them, but I imagine there is a moment in which when you’re not quite sure where you are you slow down, tread water, poke your head above water and take a breath. One of those moments of… Continue reading October Phantoms