The most important page of any book is the first. Those first few paragraphs and that first sentence can make or break the book. How many times have you picked up a novel, read the first page, and put it back down? I had the good fortune to take a seminar with best-selling author Jody…
When creating a dynamic character to carry your story, it’s important that they be strongly motivated to drive the plot forward. It makes them more interesting, and the story a lot more fun. When I was writing the first novel in The Witch of Cheyne Heath series, Waking the Witch, I was researching psychological models…
The Spheres of Influence and the lords and ladies that rule them.
The character of Johnny’s friend and onetime lover, Sir Wilfred Stepney, is based on two painters: Lucian Freud, who wasn’t gay, and David Hockney, who is.
‘Sigit Sigit’ Johnny Suharto: Gosha’s closest friend and confidant. A talented performer destined for great things. Truly great things. Marc Almond Lead singer of Soft Cell in the eighties, Almond has gone on to have a substantial solo career into the present day. There is something essentially queer about Marc Almond in the most creative…
Patrician, entitled, glamorous, and ruthless in the pursuit of power, Euphemia Graham is a sorcerer and master-spy with her lips pressed to the ear of the Crown.