Nicola Belte lives in Birmingham, U.K, and is a part-time barmaid, part-time MA Writing student and in-between time writer of weird things.Currently working on a Victorian/Steampunk YA novel and various short stories, she spends most of her time in pyjamas staring at the computer and pestering publishers, and sometimes they relent. This blog is then a collection of published works, insights into what undertaking a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing involves, and probably a lot of ranting about both, and beyond.