The pavements have suddenly become carpeted with conkers where I live (among the slushy leaves and crushed acorns), which can only mean one thing… Christmas is on its way! Eeek!
Darkness Forbidden has picked up some fine reviews over the last couple of months (of course, we would say that, but hey: judge for yourselves…):
It’s true – J M Rankin’s Darkness Forbidden is on sale on Amazon right now for just 99p!
A huge thank you to writing.ie for featuring our guest article on our dyslexia-friendly titles. This amazing site for writers and readers is a veritable font of knowledge for anyone interested in books from any angle… You can read our little interview here:
We had a nice delivery from the printers yesterday of Darkness Forbidden paperback and dyslexia editions… it was like Christmas had come early!
Here at Scorpius we never do things by halves, which is probably why we committed at the start to publish 15 titles in our first year… eeek!! We must have been mad!
Two recent pieces of news from Scorpius towers, with our eyes now firmly fixed on the year’s exciting list:
A few snippits of news from Scorpius towers this week, with our eyes firmly fixed on our upcoming titles over the next few months:
Phew, it’s been a while since I last posted… tut, tut. To be fair, there has been a tonne of things happening behind the scenes so I’ll stick to that as my excuse! More on those coming soon…
Did you play the Game of Thrones and win?…
Warning: contains spoilers for series 8…(and a long post!)
Okay, so I’m a little late to the party on this, but after the final episode (which I watched several days late due to the hubby working and due to the school holidays have only just got round to writing this!), I think it’s taken me this long to process it and come to terms with the fact that a show I’ve watched for years is actually all over! In a small way, it was almost a form of grief.
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