A quick heads up - New web host

Just a quick heads up that there may be disruption to the main website over the next few days as I'm transferring to a new hosting provider. The address will remain the same.

Take care

Katy

Website Updates and Blog Updates

The following have been updated at the website:

Dark Metre issue 12 is now live.
Horror poets updated.
Writing prompts updated.

Recent blog posts you may have missed:
Book Review - Write Good or Die edited by Scott Nicholson.
My Top 5 Favourite Horror Books of 2011.
Merry Christmas

I've also added my Goodreads reading challenge widget to the right hand side of the blog.

Happy New Year
Katy

Book Review - Write Good or Die edited by Scott Nicholson

Book review - Write Good or Die edited by Scott Nicholson

This is a free download for the kindle, it offers articles of advice on many aspects of writing such as time management, determination, discipline, promotion, publishing and craft techniques. I will be referring back to some articles at a later date and I liked the relaxed tone of the articles some of the heavier "How to" books can be quite stringent.

Rating: 4/5
Product details:

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 286 KB
• Publisher: Haunted Computer Books; 1 edition (13 April 2010)
• Language English
• ASIN: B003H4QZOG

The publishers website can be found here.

My Top 5 Favourite Horror Books of 2011

Another year comes to a close, my goodreads reading challenge saw me finishing the year with 20 books read. For next year I'm increasing that goal to 25 and at least 10 of those will be ebooks. Also hoping to get through a few more poetry collections as well.

These are my top 5 horror books of the year, not necessarily published in 2011.

1) Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill. My review and book details here.

2)The Road by Cormac McCarthy. My review and book details here.

3)The Ritual by Adam Nevill. My review and books details here.

4) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. My review and book details here.

5)The Rhysling Anthology 2011 edited by David Lunde. My review and book details here.

An honourable mention goes to Peter Straub's long story "The Buffalo Hunter."

What were your favourite reads of the year?

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thanks to all my followers and visitors for swinging by my blog and to the writers among you I hope 2012 will be a productive year.

My only New Year's resolution is to begin subbing my poetry regularly next year, oh and to get back to a semi-regular blog schedule.

See you all in 2012

Katy

Website Updates and blog updates

Another round up of updates:

Over on the website:
Issue 11 of Dark Metre is now live.

Recent blog posts you may have missed:
Writing Tips- Using a Task Manager
Remembrance Sunday - Poem - The Poppy
2012 Ebook Challenge
My Top 5 Favourite iPad Apps - Part 1
My Top 5 Favourite iPad Apps - Part 2
Book Review - Playing With Fire
Book Review - The Small Hand by Susan Hill

Take care

Katy

Book Review - The Small Hand by Susan Hill

Book Review - The Small Hand by Susan Hill

I read this in one sitting. Nice, crisp prose and some creepy moments and a few turns that I didn't expect.

Rating: 4/5



Product details:

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Profile Books (7 July 2011)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 1846682401
• ISBN-13: 978-1846682407

Visit Susan Hill's website

Other books you may be interested:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill

Book Review - Playing With Fire - Edited by Coral Russell

Book Review - Playing With Fire edited by Coral Russell

For me, the stories in this horror anthology that I really enjoyed were:
Coral Russell's Devil of a Ghost Tour which had some genuinely creepy moments.

Brian Fatah Steele's Flawed and The Stuff Dreams Aren't Made of, both were quirky and unusual.

Chryse Wymer's This Dark Magic, a fun story of black magic with a well developed character.

Overall, all the stories are vastly different from each but the others didn't do it for me

Rating 3/5
The publisher's blog is here and the amazon link for further info is below:





Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 325 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Alchemy of Scrawl (11 July 2011)
• Language English
• ASIN: B005CDD4IK

Other reviews you may be interested in:

Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20

One Buck Horror Volume 1