Web home of Caroline Barnard-Smith - Genre fiction writer and malcontent swamp witch
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Greetings, Humans!

I write horror, sci-fi, and epic fantasy stories. Sometimes they get published.

This is primarily a place for me to showcase my work and post any writing news, but I'm also a huge fan of anything Web 1.0. (If you're not sure what that means but you’re desperate to find out, click here). This means if you’re lucky, you might find some old gifs floating around—mostly borrowed from GifCities. You'll be pleased to know I've abstained from using any scrolling text or background midis. I'm still deliberating on whether or not to set up a guestbook...A small pixel art representation of the author, hard at work on her computer while sat at a desk decorated with purple planets.

If you'd like to know more about me or my writing, feel free to poke around the site. Just don't disturb the cats.

Stats for Nerds

The Scarlet Warrior (fantasy/novel/draft)

10%

Breaking Sky (sci-fi/novel/draft)

80%
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Website of the Week

11/08/2023: Topher's Castle

First Created 1997 - Last Updated - 2018

A beautiful rainbow of a site that isn’t afraid to play with multicoloured fonts, Topher’s Castle is a vast repository of information as disparate as cruise and travel, and guides to every character in Winnie the Pooh.

My favourite part of the site is Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide. According to the now-defunct Voting Booth, the ancient internet’s favourite cereal character was Big Yella. Big Yella is new to this British millennial, but he looks like a cross between Mr Benn and Bert the Muppet.

Personally, I would have voted for Cliffy the Clown.

Can you imagine waking up to that face staring back at you from across the breakfast table each morning? Time to rise and shine, kids! Finish up those sugary wheat puffs and get yourselves off to school right quick, or Cliffy will come fer yer eyes with a sharpened cereal spoon!

Past Websites of the Week ...Because Web 1.0 was awesome


Last updated: 20/02/2024