The Spinner’s Game e-book Update #25

Posted on December 8, 2019 by crispina kemp

December update… and yes, things are progressing with the preparations to publish The Spinner’s Game on Kindle (and POD), launch date: 20th March 2020, Vernal Equinox.

Editing…

I can report with great relief that Books One, Two, Three and Four – The Spinner’s Child, Lake of Dreams, The Pole That Threads and Lady of First Making – are all polished and every word sparkling. Yay!

The Spinner’s Sins (Book Five aka Asaric Sins, working title)

The rewrites and revisions have begun and are progressing well, to my satisfaction. Some chapters take longer than others, needing just that little bit more attention.

And whilst doing that, I’m giving each finished chapter its final edit.

Where am I with this? About halfway through.

And hey, here’s another chance to show off Lauren Willmore’s fantastic cover design.

 

Maps. Yay! Maps.

Have I said before I. Love. Maps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I’ve now got to grips with a map-making app Inkarnate. And as a first try out, I produced this. It was done on the freebie version. To produce maps to use commercially, I need to buy the licence. I thought I’d wait till after Christmas for that. But I’m really looking forward to it. It’s a much better version.

The Spinner’s Mythic World – A Traveller’s Guide

The Supplement Giveaway, to be offered with Pre-Orders, loosely styled on the Lonely Planet Guides. The material for this is still lodged in my head although I have made notes. So that’s another step nearer.

Still much work to be done before that Launch Date arrives. And meantime, thoughts arise of What About After?

Bellinn Road

Bellinn Road is less a sequel more another story in the Asaric Tales series. I hope to get it out on Kindle by mid-summer. More news of that anon.

Next e-book update will be… Sunday 5th January 2020

 

 

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No Place to Sit

Posted on December 7, 2019 by crispina kemp

Burlingham Woods: 19th November 2019

So we’re walking along, five miles since we jumped off the bus, and I’m thinking now I’d like to sit for a while, maybe have a coffee, brought in my flask. And here’s a seat… and isn’t it ironic, it’s broken. All these trees, not a place to sit.

Isn’t It Ironic, one of the titles in #2019picoftheweek challenge. For details see MariaAntonia

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CCC#56: Golden Lure

Posted on December 5, 2019 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #56

Eagle landing on a pole,
Locus bright
Talons caught upon the web
turning day to night
Eagle’s wing pinioned on a lyre
Vega was the ancient gyre
Remembered now, a star alone
Alas, the eagle turned to stone
Ivy tangles talons now
Polaris and a lesser plough

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #56

Posted on December 4, 2019 by crispina kemp

CCC#56

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Posted on December 3, 2019 by crispina kemp

image by Steve Buissinne on pixabay

After remarking yesterday that I love words, I remembered this post from back in January 2013. So here’s giving it another airing

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What I Mean…

Posted on December 2, 2019 by crispina kemp

image by conger design on pixabay

Philology?

No, morphology.

Not phenomenology?

No, and neither physiology.

So, not anatomy nor neurology?

You’re thinking only of biology.

Ah, geology then, like… geochronology?

No. Not even geomorphology.

None of that is what I mean by morphology.

37 words, written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt

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Sunday Fungi: Beneath the Spreading Chestnut Tree

Posted on December 1, 2019 by crispina kemp

And I bring to you this Sunday…

A pretty little fungus… looks more like a flower

And lo! An undershot too…

I’m tempted to say it’s an Orange Milkcap. But then there are so many other milkcaps all of a similar colouring… we’ll say it’s a Milkcap and leave it at that

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Parasites and Fungi

Posted on November 30, 2019 by crispina kemp

Tiny-tiny fungi: 19th Nov 2019

It took me a while to find a name for this very small fungus. Paecilomyces farinosus... which is parasitic on buried moth pupae. Alternatively,00 it could be a white variant of the yellow stagshorn… though I’d say it’s too small and singular.

A Small World, one of the titles in #2019picoftheweek challenge. For details see MariaAntonia

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CCC#55: Ancient Brews for Ancient Feasts

Posted on November 28, 2019 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #55

Come on my son, you are not dead;
Stop your sleeping, get out of bed.
I’ll wash you and warm you; I’ll turn you about;
And when you start growing, I’ll give you a clout.
I’ll bash you and thrash you; I’ll stamp on your head.
I’ll grind you and bind you; you’ll wish you were dead.
I’ll take you and bake you, and when you are done
I’ll soak you and mash you, my little son.
I’ll heat you and feed you on apples and pears.
I’ll give you some honey: the sweetness of bears.
I’ll leave you to brew for the length of my fingers.
I’ll watch as you grow a head, hope that it lingers.
And when you are ready, my little one,
We’ll lap up your essence, my fatherless son.

Notice seen on site.

I came across this *modern henge* while out walking last week. See the notice. And I thought…

Well, it’s thought that people of old met at these henges to celebrate this or that feast. And it’s assumed that at such feasts the celebrants enjoyed an alcoholic beverage or two.

And so I give you my take on an ancient recipe… for Neolithic Ale! Excuse the anachronic apples and pears.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #55

Posted on November 27, 2019 by crispina kemp

CCC#55

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

Found in a clearing in Burlingham Woods.

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