And what I wonder is if some of them think at all. In Toronto Canada some schools have the kilt as school uniform for girls. Apparently many of the girls hitch their kilts up well above the knee contravening school policy and public decency. So the school board authorities (covering a number of schools in …
November 2011 archive
Petrella At Q by Michael Gilbert
a collection of the ‘Patrick Petrella” stories published in hardcover by H&S in 1977, and reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I’m taking it easy on the reading side by rereading all the books I have by a favourite author. Michael Gilbert was a brilliant writer, he produced a string of books and story collections for over …
Another sale
Yes, the ghost tale I mentioned an update or two ago as being written, was completed and sold. Arafel will be out very late next year in Whortleberry Press’s Christmas anthology and, as it’s a ‘cat story’ it will also be eligible for the Cat Writer Assoc.’s Muse Medallion in 2013. Now if I can …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED J. T. McINTOSH
J. T. McIntosh (born Feb. 14, 1925 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland) was a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor. MacGregor used the pseudonym for all his science fiction work, which was the majority of his output, though he did publish some books under his own name. I think that his book, …
Blown Away
well, not quite, but it certainly feels as if I should have been. All yesterday was screaming gales, found a lull and even then had trouble accessing my email and replying. Quit in the end and waited until today. Worse yet, the forecast is that we may have really bad gales back again Wednesday, Thursday …
And the other Shoe
Yes, I opened my email the other day and discovered that I’d been awarded the MUSE Medallion by the (International) Cat Writers Association for my short story – Opener of Doors – published on the Hazard Cat website August last year. Judge’s comment: “I was hooked from the first page. May all of us have …
Xmas Story Clearing
I find that at this time of the year a lot of anthology editors are clearing their desks, so that it can be a good time (Sept/Oct.)to get submissions to them. At least this seems to be working for me. A 2012 Halloween anthology has just accepted my ghost story, The Mailman. And it may …
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Published by Dell, paperback dated May 2009. reviewed by Shari Aarlton. I thought this was a brilliant book, gentle, sensitive, loving, witty, and sweet in turns while tossing in all sorts of literary excerpts and allusions. It starts with an author who receives a letter a year after …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – JOY CHANT?
This is the pen name for Eileen Joyce (Joy) Rutter, born January 13th 1945 in the UK. Joy Chant is best known for her three fantasy books in The Vandarei saga. Chant’s first book, RED MOON AND BLACK MOUNTAIN appeared in England in 1971 from Allen and Unwin and won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award the …
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Fencing going on
29 November 2011
I was about to start on the computer when I heard an odd regular thudding sound. Wondering what that was I plodded outside and looked about – to see a tractor, two guys, and a stack of fence-posts. Yes, the fences on my neighbour’s small place, and on mine, are being upgraded, or added to. …
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