Felices fiestas! from Anna Butler to you all

I can barely believe that 2018 is almost gone and that the winter holidays are upon us. I love this time of year. I celebrate Christmas but in a very secular way, because really, there’s no innate Christianity in celebrating Read more

Mellow Autumn

. .   One of the advantages of doing these regular author posts on Love Bytes is the ready-made audience for when I’m feeling the need to pontificate. So stand by. I’m in a reflective mood at the moment. It’s Read more

NaNoNoNo

  Anna Butler here with (for once!) a monthly post that lines up with the calendar. Five days to go, and for the zillioneth year in succession, I’ve done nothing to prepare for NaNoWriMo. What a surprise that isn’t. I Read more

Monthly Author post -Anna Butler – Reviews Redux

This was going to be a post about the tricks pulled on you by low self-confidence, the grungy feeling you (generic you!) might get when you’re looking imposter syndrome in the face, the general downer you get when you begin Read more

Appropriation vs Inspiration

I’ve been thinking a great deal recently about where the line is regarding legitimate inspiration for writers vs the accusation they appropriate the lives and experiences of others. Let’s be clear here that I’m not talking about writers claiming to Read more

Question Everything

I love research. The first thing I did when I decided to write the Lancaster’s Luck series as a steampunk world was cheer and rub my hands together, before rushing off to read up on steampunk’s history, the steampunk aesthetic, Read more