Elin Gregory

Qs for Stevie.

Today my guest in the Comfy Chair is my friend Stevie Carroll, author of ‘The Monitors’, in Noble Romance’s Echoes of Possibilities, which was longlisted by the Tiptree Awards in 2010. She has also written short stories that appeared in British Flash and Tea and Crumpet, anthologies published by the UK Meet organisation. Her first solo collection of short stories, A Series of Ordinary Adventures, is published by Candlemark and Gleam in May.

Hi Stevie, thanks for joining me today.

Stevie: Thank you for having me here.

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My guest today is Dianne Hartsock, an author of paranormal, contemporary and fantasy romances published with Etopia Press, Breathless Press and Solstice Publishing. Her last title, the fantasy romance Nathaniel has achieved great critical acclaim. She is here today to answer my questions about her work in general and specifically about her latest novel, Eran’s Release.

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Click on the image for the full list but  congratulations to Eric Arvin for Woke Up in a Strange Place, Elliot Mackle for Captain Harding’s Six Day War and to all the contributors to Jerry Wheeler’s anthology Riding the Rails, but in particular Erastes and Nathan Burgoigne whose stories were terrific!

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And a new format. I’ve been thinking of something to call my guest posts and I think I have struck on just the thing. From now on the brave people who volunteer to contribute articles about their interests or answers to question will be placed in The Comfy Chair. Nobody expects an inquisition but you may as well have somewhere nice to sit while you endure it. 🙂

In my Comfy Chair this week will be:

Tristram La Roche, author of On My Knees, Fixed, Lorenzo the Magnificent and The Hun and The General.

Kay Berrisford, author of Bound for the Forest, whose second novel, Bound to the Beast, is out TODAY!

Next week there will be more of them, brave souls.

Excuse me while I go and plump up the cushions!

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Six Sentence Sunday – I’ve borrowed their nice graphic but I wish they had a nice manly one of a big hairy bloke with a sword or something.

6 sentences from WIP, A Fierce Reaping, set in Scotland and Northumbria in the late 7th century AD. Accepted into Troop Three, aka The Misbegotten, or Cynon’s Hounds, Cynfal is beginning to gather the equipment he needs.

“So it’s three years since we last got drunk together,” Aeddan said, finally. “Damn me, it feels like longer. Ah, there’s Cynon, and it looks like he might have found you something to ride.”
“I’d be happier if it had been a pony.” Cynfal scowled.  “What is that – a big sheep?”

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Grinning like a monkey because I have finished “On A Lee Shore”!  And about bloody time too! It was my 2010 Nanowrimo and I did 60K in the time, no problem, but lost all my impetus afterwards. Now it can sit for a bit while I do something else to clear my palate before I do the second draft. 🙂

And the meme:

I’ve been tagged for the Lucky Seven by Julia Kavan!

Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript
Go to line 7
Post on your blog the next 7 lines, or sentences, as they are – no cheating
Tag 7 other authors to do the same

Last time I did it there was a paragraphs option but I have been good and conformed.

However I’m not going to tag other people to do it. I don’t think I know 7 authors who haven’t already been tagged. 🙂 If you fancy having a go please let me know. I’d love to read your Sevens.

This snippet is from “Eleventh Hour” – a story about the Special Intelligence Service set in 1928.

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