I was casually watching a fairly long ad while waiting for the real promgramme that I was taping and saw something that interested me, so I went back to check the ad later and realized what that was. In the before and after pictures, there looks to me to be no real difference at all …
October 2011 archive
next anthology out now here
I trotted out to the mailbox this afternoon (carefully avoiding the gander) and found that a small solid envelope had arrived containing HALLOWEEN HELL-O-WEEN, Whortleberry Press’s new halloween anthology that contains my story, Neither Bricks Nor Stone. I was pleased to see that, Jean the editor usually has a good selection of tales and even …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – KEITH ROBERTS?
Keith(John Kingston)Roberts was born 20th September 1935 and died October 5th 2000. His first work appeared as short stories in Science Fantasy magazine in 1964. He is known mainly for two novels, The Furies, (1966) and Pavane (1968), although he continued to write into the late 1980s. Roberts also worked as an illustrator and his …
Anthology with my work arrives
I wandered up the lawn to meet the mailcar on Saturday to find a smallish box was being handed over. It turned out to be the copies of Spirit legends:Of Ghosts and Gods, a Runewright anthology in which I had a story, (Hounded.) This is the first of their anthologies to which I’ve sold work …
Spring has Sprung
If I’d not noticed that before, I noticed it this week. One of the hens (Fawn Girl) is sitting on six eggs in the hay barn, all three girl geese are sitting (in three different places) on the front lawn – and the gander has gone completely crazy over his impending fatherhood… The raspberries have …
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From the Watchtower
6 October 2011
That gander has escalated his determination to make certain no one sets foot on the lawn that he doesn’t know about. I took mail out yesterday and glanced around. No sign of that big white feathered form anywhere. That was odd. I stopped and took a very careful look about – being cautious is better …
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