

spellcheck with Collins, a trusty programme which usually gives date of first usage.spellcheck within Word, words it doubts, queries, hyphenates etc.I have at least three lists of words that emerge: What I love is how the words I’ve checked illuminate whatever the hell it is I’m trying to write about. Thanks to all the bloggers for their warm welcome and to Titan Books for setting up the whirlwind tour.Įvery time I finish an edit, as I just did for #Lawless and the #HouseofElectricity, sending it off at 3am to Titan Books just before heading for CrimeFest, I marvel at the words. Look out next week for updated links for these posts appearing hither and thither. Modernise your thinking with the Victorian technology steampunk apparatus. Galvanize yourself with Pulvermacher’s Electro-apparatus. Gape at the breath-taking Asthma Cigarettes. House of Electricity’s Patent Electro-Expanding Blog Tour Slang, wonderful slang: the Word Detectivesīookshop Bliss: Nothing Better than a Local Bookshop Behind You My Best Writing Blocks: from Trump to Twitter Victorian Trainline? 5 Websites every Victorian novelist longs for Seven Books that Electrified The House of Electricity The Country House Novel: the Cross-Genre Genre “The past is the new future” – from sci-fi to steampunk Techno-Thrillers Victorian style: “Victorians didn’t have technology” Mapping a Mystery: “Every good book needs a map.” Thanks to the bloggers for a warm welcome on my Titan Books blogtour.ĭr Batty’s Asthma Cigarettes: Inspiration from Ads & Pictures From Dr Batty’s Asthma Cigarettes to Bookship Bliss in Portsmouth, via Country House Novels and Victorian Techno-Thrillers, you can find them all here, here or here. My launch events are fun, celebratory and a milepost of writing for me, but I’ve no doubt the blog tour organised by Titan Books for me reached hundred times as many people. Thanks to all those who made the writing, researching and launching of the book so joyful. 20 things that helped Lawless and the House of Electricity into the world.
