I use perfume oils to evoke characters, settings, and tones for myself as I draft of revise a story. And 99 times out of 100, the perfume oil I’m using comes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (BPAL).
Today, I’m posting about BPAL’s Seven Veils scents and, uh, here’s the thing… they go down from the website TOMORROW. Did you hear me? Today (31st July) is the last day to get them. So, you know. If you’re inspired, strike like lightning.
Starting WEDNESDAY! Still time to sign up, and play in the Gothic sandbox with me, in my Dread & Desire course on Gothic writing techniques! We’ll do some reading, some thinking, some playing, some chatting, and most importantly some WRITING–with feedback from me! Useful for… Read More
Starting in just one week (Feb 19th), I am taking as many people as I can from the beginning of their novel draft to typing “the end.”
We begin on Feb 19th, 2025. You’ll get written lessons, weekly feedback on your writing, and optional weekly Zoom calls to discuss all things novel!
I know it can be the hardest thing in the world to just keep going. You can do this; I will help you.
WRITERS–the time to write *scary* approaches…
It’s that time again! I’m running a 16-week course over on Writers dot com to help YOU get that first draft written.
I was sixteen when I told my mom I wanted a sex change.
I’ve been struggling with revising the beginning of The Next Novel. Not because I don’t know what happens to set my protagonist on her journey—I do. I can see her history winding behind her like a river, pretty far back, before it curves out of… Read More
Looking over my shoulder, I think about 2023 as my “Wonka year” (“You see: nobody ever goes in… and nobody ever comes out.”). No sooner had On Good Authority hit shelves (my debut novel! the stuff of my wildest dreams!) than I disappeared… or, at… Read More
I have generously been given, to review, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s new collaboration with Junji Ito: TOMIE perfume oil, inspired—of course—by the horrific (and brilliant, socially critical, feminist) graphic novel of the same name.
Briana Una McGuckin 