
An Absent Blog of Bookish News
Revealing the name of the seventh Beaufort Scales book, plans for the coming months, and being offline.

A Worry of Weres, Chapter 1: Rabies is the Least of Our Worries
Read the first chapter of Gobbelino’s fifth adventure here! (Just mind SharkDog …)

Life Lessons on a Baking Bad Anniversary
Three years ago this month – yesterday, in fact – Beaufort Scales ambled out into the …

Rose’s Lemon Shortbread Recipe
Shortbread is not the sort of biscuit that inspires me. It’s not soft and chewy inside…

Questions regarding dragons & writing – reblog from A.S. Akkalon
A char with the wonderful A.S. Akkalon, in which she asks me important things and shares scary sheep.

Gobbelino London & a Scourge of Pleasantries – Chapter One
Find a missing book. That was the job the woman in the Doc Martens gave us.
Easy money, right? Well …

7 Things to Hate About Books & Reading
Look, we’re all readers here, aren’t we? Or, you know, tea-drinkers, cake-lovers…

Tea, Cake, Quotes, & the Fingerprints of Writers
Writers have fingerprints. And no, I don’t mean the sort that various government…

Book Hoarder Problems (#bookwormproblems, really)
I kind of take this as a commandment, to be honest. We’re probably going to be moving…

7 Tips for Non-Readers Who’ve Adopted A Reader
Okay. So you’ve adopted a reader, but you’re not one yourself. You are, in fact…