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Hi! No updates for three months, but don’t worry, the blog’s not dead. Basically I’ve been commissioned to write four book contributions, split between two publishers. That’s at the upper edge of what I can manage, with my current writing time. I have been tackling it and two are in the bag, and one is…

I noticed a group of people started following Games From Folktales today. Hi!  If you came here mostly because of my recent discussions about the Australian Women Writers Challenge, then perhaps you’d prefer to follow book coasters (gcbooks.wordpress.com), which is my work blog, where I review books.  This site’s mostly about my own writing, so its…

The Thirteenth Object is the lower half of a robe, cut diagonally from just below the right elbow of the wearer, to the left hip. The Object is primarily made of cotton, and is dyed with something the colour of saffron. Minute analysis shows the Thriteenth Object to have been hand-woven, using a technique now known in Italy, and used primarily…

I have four books which have hit dealine points at the moment, so I need to keep up with my paid writing.  I’ll be back to the blog within a couple of weeks.  8)

Posting it on the web is the ghost of “done”, so: An Ancient Egyptian game.  I’ve been looking at Ancient Egyptian Ars for quite a while, and I’ve never really been able to find the time to assemble it as an alt setting. I don’t want to do it as a hard precursor setting (no Aegis, different…