I checked my spam box before starting on blog items this morning, deleted 53 comments, and it occurred to me to wonder why people bother. It’s abundantly clear that those who “comment” on my various articles and updates etc. haven’t read them, aren’t interested, and wouldn’t know me from a bar of soap. A friend …
March 2012 archive
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – KATHLEEN SKY?
Kathleen Sky (born Kathleen Mckinney, August 5, 1943) is Kathleen Mckinney Goldin. From 1972 to 1982 she was married to fellow author/collaborator Stephen Goldin. Her pen name is her former married name from her marriage to first husband Karl Sky. She appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in Star Trek: The motion picture. Kathleen Sky has …
Batten Down the Hatches.
Currently it’s Friday lunchtime and the above is exactly what I’m doing. We can get ferocious storms in our area. The forecasts several days ago started suggesting that much of our North island was about to get something of unusual intensity, and that we should prepare. I’ve prepared. I’ve moved all my sheep and lambs …
Story sale.
I was delighted to get an email recently to say that my story, OPENER OF DOORS, has been accepted. The Mystical Cat anthology is the perfect place for the work to alight (since it’s all about a women and her cat and this is the work that won the 2011 Muse medallion) and I look …
STRANGE MYSTERIES 4 published Whortleberry Press, February 2012.
Reviewed by Steve Johnson. I like a good mystery, and I like short stories, so I was looking forward to this anthology since Lyn said I could review her author copy and that meant reading it first. It’s funny how tastes differ. Lyn makes a small pencil mark on her anthologies, alongside the stories she …
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Battened hatches update.
7 March 2012
We did get gales that Saturday – and rain. About two and a quarter inches in 30 hours. But the gales weren’t the ones we CAN get, which often run to 130k. I’d have been surprised if they were over 110k here this time. However while we may not have been getting a beating others …
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