Certain events suggested that it was time I should double check the original catalogue of my short work, and then bring the three sections (stories, articles, and poems) up to date. A friend and I began a couple of weeks ago with updating short story sales to anthologies and I got that posted. I now …
April 2012 archive
Going Out With a Bang
I came back from a bookarama the other week with 41 books for $37.50, including a cartoon book on Old Age. It had a section that suggested ways in which you could die more dramatically, interestingly or irritatingly (to annoy the kids.) One method was to line your do-it-yourself coffin with explosive and demand cremation. …
LOW NOON anthology edited by David B.Riley.
softcover, published by Science Fiction Trails, April 2012. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This was an excellent compilation, there was only one story that I thought wasn’t a reasonable read, and all were definitely weird. Don D’Ammassa’s Drawn Out was, I thought, the best in the anthology. It produced an aspect of ‘weirdness’ that I haven’t …
DOG DAYS by John Levitt
published ACE, November 2007, paperback. Reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I picked up the second and fourth books in this series on a recommendation. I liked them so much that I left a comment on the author’s site and with great generosity, he sent me the first and third in the series. I’m told that the …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN?
Born in Chicago in 1946, Phyllis Eisenstein has lived there for most of her life and is an author of SF/F short stories and novels. She attended the University of Chicago during the 1960s, then returned to study and achieved a degree in anthropology from the University of Illinios in 1981. For those who may …
Let the Re-Cataloguing Begin.
Moan! In some ways, finally getting all my professional writing sorted into categories – Books, Stories, Articles and Poems- listed chronologically on files and uploaded to my website is going to be a horrendous amount of work. I’ll be doing some of it but the majority, about three-quarters, will be done by a friend. (Thank …
Sheep Arriving.
well, if nothing goes wrong, no one changes their mind, and things occur when they’re supposed to. But a while back I had a phone call. A local couple were going to live in Australia for some years and wanted a good home for their two spotted sheep. I have spotted sheep, and mine, as …
My Subconscious is WEIRD!
Recently I got the guidelines for the special issue of a regular magazine. David, the editor, is someone with whom I work well, and I always like the anthologies he produces besides the magazine. But I didn’t think I had any bright ideas for this one special magazine issue – Martians and Earthlings. Yes, David …
THE ATTENBURY EMERALDS by Jill Paton Walsh.
Published paperback H&S 2011. This one was a book for my birthday. The giver knows that I’ve always loved the work by Dorothy Sayers, and that I now enjoy the continuance of the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Jill Paton Walsh, hence the arrival of this one. And again it’s a very good book. Walsh …
And They Arrived
28 April 2012
Two sheep, Jethro and Elly Mae, spotted, one girl, one boy, delivered and not sure they wanted to be here, but they are. Yes. the expected duo turned up last weekend and have settled in quite well. Originally they were in with the other sheep but my friend’s ram (Basil) took exception to Jethro, and …
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