yesterday I posted several items on my blog, this morning I clicked on it to check something and discovered that in less than 24 hours I’d received another 50+, and I wonder why on earth these idiots keep bothering. Apart from anything else, I have no interest in buying camping gear (I’m crippled) fake Louis …
November 2012 archive
SPACE INC. Theme anthology edited by Julie Czerneda. Published paperback, DAW, 2003.
Anthologies can be very useful as samplers. I read a number for this reason and in the past stories from theme anthologies have put me onto writers I might otherwise have missed. But editing an anthology is an art. I read an anthology and mark the stories three ways as Category One, for this story …
Dual Story Sale
yes, I’ve just received an email to say that my horror stories, Little Girl Lost, (H/SF) and Sowing on the Mountain, (H/M) have been accepted by an Ontario horror anthology, and that I should receive contracts early in New Year. I’m really pleased with this sale, those involved are professional as is the word payment …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – LEANNE FRAHM?
Leanne Frahm was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1946. (Yes, another of us 1946ers) She received the first nomination for her work in 1978 when she was a finalist for the 1979 Ditmar Award for best fan writer. The following year she won the best fan writer award. Leanne’s first professional story was in …
Third Book Sold for the Year
well, not exactly a book but a short story collection. Shortly after I returned from Melbourne, I was discussing a cat story that I’d sold to a regular anthology publisher, and I started wondering just how many cat stories I did have. I’ve always written one or two each year and after 20+ years that …
All That Good Weather
The last three years have been wetter than usual which has resulted in more available food for creatures. Last summer the small birds around my farmlet nested three times and produced a fountain of babies. The single yellowhammer (or his descendant) that has appeared regularly for two decades, multiplied, and for the frst time ever …
Drowning Not Waving
from Steve Johnson – guest blogger. There was a tragedy in the waters off Auckland recently. Seven large males went out in a small boat. They grossly overloaded the boat’s capacity in those numbers, and they went out without bothering to take lifejackets. As anyone with a grain of commonsense would have expected, the boat …
What Goes Around…
Watching TV news the other week it occurred to me that some businesses do howl when they kick someone else and stub a toe. There was a news item about the amount of stock that self-service checkouts in supermarkets are losing. But that goes back to their own decision to lose a number of checkout …
Demon Weather by Chico Kidd.
published softcover, Booktrope, 2011. Cover art by author. This came flapping into my mailbox unexpectedly and I fell on it with cries of delight. It seems incredible that I’ve known the author for more than 20 years, (and liked her work for just as long) but when I checked, yes, that’s so. Chico’s main character …
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Weeping on the Lawn
28 November 2012
No, not me. But to start from the beginning, last Saturday morning my sheep were sheared and then let out onto my large front lawn to graze that down before the ankle-deep grass rose much higher. The sheep aren’t always keen on being sheared but it’s a lot better than being encased in solid wool …
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