Mark Lawrence

I see that I'm running out of January! Rather than have a month go by without a blog post, how about I tell you what I'm up to today...

For 9 of the last 12  years I've said: "It has been a very good 20** all told!". 2020 & 2021 & 2022... hmmm ... Not so...

2022 has not been a bumper year reading-wise, just 9 books read, nearing my lowest ever total of 8 reads. It was a really varied bag of book...

This continues the reprisal of my series of page 1 critiques - you can read about the project  HERE , and there's a list of all the crit...

Since I've now put 10 page ones through the mill, variously ones sent to me for exactly this kind of critique, and the first pages of bo...

  300 contestants have been narrowed to 10 finalists. Finalists for SPFBO 8 The  Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off  finalists are listed and s...