May 2019

Podcast interview: Productivity Alchemy

Curious about how I keep myself organised doing all the things I do? I did an interview with Kevin Sonney, at the great podcast Productivity Alchemy, and the episode came out today (May 16th, 2019). On it, I answer the seven questions he asks all his guests (see below), and talk about various of my projects outside the Celia Lake books. His wife, Ursula Vernon, usually is also on for a portion of each episode (though not this time, she was down wrangling livestock with a friend of theirs…) and the interview guests come from a wide range of backgrounds, including a bunch of creative types. In a quirk of amusing timing, Augusta Scarlett, who does the covers for my series, was on for episode 93, last month. Her interview is also great, and I recommend it. Feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a question about any of it, or the tools I use. I’m always glad to geek out about that kind of thing. The seven questions Kevin uses are: Please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do. How do you keep yourself organized? What systems and/or habits are valuable to you? How do you decide what to do first? What is the best advice or feedback you’ve been given? Do you celebrate your success, and if so, how? How to you deal with failure or when you miss a goal?

Magician’s Hoard is out

Don’t tell my other books, but this one might be my favourite so far. It features Pross Gates (widowed bookseller who’s taken on some research projects, previously seen in Outcrossing) and Ibis Ward, Anglo-Egyptian researcher who’s using his skills to translate items in the Petrie Collection. Also: The world’s most adorable hedgehog. A thoughtful discussion of the complexities of Kipling and empire-building A look at Schola (the most elite of the magical schools in the series) Kemetic religious practices, including my ‘I can’t believe I just inserted a bit of a hymn to Hetheru (Hathor) in a romance novel, I love my life’ achievement. Many many thanks to Kiya, my editor, for not only for the usual amazing job taming my commas, wrangling my missing sentences, and telling me I need more ponies, but particularly for consulting on the Egyptology on this one. (Expertise on tap should be used and valued!) If this sounds like your kind of thing (or that of someone else you know), a proper blurb and buy links are available here. Currently available at Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords, and others are working their way through the system. Also keep an eye out here and on my Twitter feed for some more posts in the coming days. I can’t resist sharing some awesome Egyptological images I’ve been stockpiling including adorable turquoise hedgehogs.

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