First week of 2024, and now that I'm all settled in it's time to talk about my plans for the year. Mostly reading and gaming plans, since writing plans are pretty much 'keep on doing what I'm doing'. Book Bingo Card First things first, I have a new Book Bingo Card for 2024. I've just …
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2023 Wrap Up
Hello everyone. With 2023 coming to an end, now seems like a good time to wrap up my year in reading and writing. This is a bit of a hard thing to do, because I feel that the last three years have been one massive blur. It was surprise to me to starting writing about …
NaNo Results
Okay, just done my first NaNo, and feels good to go get a lot of writing down, even if I did fall a little short of the 50,000 word target. Well... maybe a lot short. Definity short. I wrote 17,419 words of my novella Amanidas, increasing the total wordcount to 29,866. And you know what? …
Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo
So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …
Hugo Talk, NaNoWrMo Plans, and Holiday Sketches
Just a quick update on things happening with me. And also a look at the Hugos, though not much since I haven't really been following them this year. I could pretend to be really noble and say I was boycotting them due to China's human right's issues, but whilst that certainly turned me off, I …
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Ayreon Live and Europe Adventure
So, I've been a bit quiet lately. No twitch streams, no new stories, and no posts on either this blog or my socials. That's because I have been on an adventure for the last two and a half weeks. For the last year or so I've been saving and planning to travel to Europe to …
Got Interviewed by Analog
Thank you to the Analog team, especially Emily Hockaday, for interviewing me at the Astounding Analog Companion. Was really nice to talk about 'The World in a Ramen Cup' and well, all the other stuff I veered off into. Everyone, you should go check out the interview. https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2023/06/21/qa-with-jayde-holmes/
Exciting Changes to this Website
Long time followers of this blog may have noticed that I didn't write anything about the Hugos this year. And that I haven't posted anything for a couple of months. This year, I've been feeling as if I've turned a hobby I love into a tedious job. Don't get me wrong, the reading challenges are …
Unboxing the Creepy Book
The bubble wrap does detract from the forbidding aura of the book I admit. You ever get an impulse to order a cursed book online? Last month I learnt about Einar Baldvin's beautiful but creepy graphic novel The Crawling King, and I instantly wanted it. The book is a collection of scraps of stories and …
Book Bingo Challenge 2021 Results
I read a lot of great books in 2021. In total I read 71 books, with a total of about 14,634 pages. This year I was marking off books on a randomly generated book bingo card, and I got three bingos. I almost finished the card, but there were a few easy tiles I missed. …
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