In the long saga of the new tooth, I’ve just been to the dentist to have an impression taken of the bone of my upper jaw and the metal post sticking out of it, so that they can make the tooth to fit. They vaporized my gum with a medical laser, which smelled horrible, and…
Because my Advance Review Copies of ‘False Colors’ arrived in the post this morning:
Comment to this post with ‘comment!’ and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. My subjects were: Saxons Tolkien was responsible for getting me into the Saxons. Way in the mythical age, when I was a teenager and read…
I had a terrible time finding pictures of anything even vaguely naval related. Plenty of tall ships, lots of cartoon pirates and little kiddies in tricornes, but nothing of people actually fighting the ships. I did find some great pictures by the Historical Maritime Society, and asked if I could use some, but…
for the I Do anthology 🙂 I like to think that our high standards are showing, as both reviewers remarked on what a pleasant surprise it was to find an anthology in which all the stories were good ones 🙂 From ‘Dear Author’ “I finished each story, whether it was long or short, feeling that…
I don’t know if anyone here is also on Facebook, but, if you are, you might want to go and look at their new Terms of Service. If I’m reading them correctly, they are claiming that users license them in perpetuity to do anything they like with any content posted *to* Facebook and also any…
Beer, Bells and Bears from Alex Beecroft’s Blogger blog by Alex Beecroft Nobody who has suggested that the British are a phlegmatic, rational, buttoned up and repressed sort of people can have possibly ever been to any of the folk events that go on around the country on various obscure saints days and festivals. I’ve…
The anthology gets a wonderful exhaustive and intelligent review by Val Kovalin of Obsidian Bookshelf: Review of I Do, an Anthology in Support of Marriage Equality, edited by Kris Jacen. And is no.1 in Amazon.co.uk’s anthology chart already! (1 customer review) Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,371 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these…
Obviously an auspicious day for going to printThe ‘I Do’ anthology is available, a day earlier than estimated, in print from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk Amazon.co.ukAmazon.comI don’t have a lot of faith in politicians, but Barak Obama is certainly a cut above the last president of America, so congratulations to the USA, and a cautious…
The nice people at Rainbow Reviews interviewed me and that is up today here: http://rainbow-reviews.com/?p=863 In which I blather on about Captain’s Surrender, False Colors, The Witch’s Boy, The Wages of Sin and Boys of Summer. Also, (continuing a bit of a worrying theme here), my favourite words for certain body parts. On a more…
