I’ve blogged over on the Samhain blog today on the subject of research for historical novels and why it’s really not as horrible as it sounds: http://samhainpublishing.com/blog/2010/09/30/research-a-perk-of-the-job I think I should perhaps do a follow-on blog about “fascinating people I’d never heard of (but really should have.)” 🙂 The main drawback of research, as far…
One of the blogs I follow regularly is Shrinking Violet Promotions (subtitle – Marketing for Introverts,) who are always interesting and provide a much welcome contrast to the rather extrovert advice I get elsewhere. Today for some readon the RSS feed sent me two of their posts instead of one, and I thought I’d pass…
Massive apologies to anyone who was hoping to get this book for Halloween last year, but the good news is that it’s out in perfect time to get it for Halloween this year 🙂 The Mysterious Anthology Containing: Shadows in Time by Laura Baumbach: Trying to avoid ruin and disgrace, young naive Neal Clifton, wealthy…
Or maybe just a plan. The trouble is that I can’t help but suspect that if I post about my plan something will occur to make sure it doesn’t happen. However, I’m going to take that risk. This year has been a year of things not getting finished, so I want to end the year…
Kicking off Talk like a Pirate Day by linking to the special pirate/age of sail post over at SPEAK ITS NAME http://speakitsname.com/2010/09/19/ahoy/ Once you catch an eyeball of that you’ll be right up for chatting on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpeakItsName/, if only to purge the horror!
http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/1127991128/offended-by-rank-objectification-of-writers LOL! This is all completely true. My poor husband!
Hi-diddley dee, a pirate’s life for me… It’s Talk Like a Pirate day on Sunday 19th September – we’d love to celebrate here on Speak Its Name. Why not post links to pictures of you (or your pets) in pirate garb (or other nautical gear)? Post Pirate slashy drabbles (not fanfic, please), pirate limericks and…
This has to be very short as I have just sliced through the top of my finger on one of those vegetable guillotine thingies, trying to make home-made crisps. Fortunately I got my 1000 words in for the day first, but I’ve got to say I don’t advise typing with your finger swathed in elastoplast. …
http://bearing-witness.dreamwidth.org/6988.html Rev. Chuck Currie on why he established the Facebook group “People of Faith Opposed to the Burning of the Qur’an” – Currie is a United Church of Christ Minister in Northwest USA. And in related news: Currie’s access to Facebook was halted for approx. 24 hours, then reinstated. Facebook has apparently refused to explain…
This is getting a little tedious. Still coughing like I’m trying to turn myself inside out. I thought my lungs were making a sound like popping candy, so I went to the doctor, who was unimpressed and said “no, they’re not, that’s just your throat.” This apparently makes it tantamount to being a whiny hypochondriac,…
