happy to say that I recently signed contracts for my story, THE 13TH EWE, which sold to RESURRECTION HOUSE XIII anthology. Must be something about being a farmer. I offered them two stories that I thought just right for them – and both were sheep tales. They liked this one best, now, anyone else want …
May 2014 archive
USE ONLY AS DIRECTED, anthology edited by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey
Theme anthology, 14 stories, includes an introduction by the editors, and information on each writer. Published by Peggy Bright Books in May. Available in print or e-book. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This is quite simply a very nice job. Presentation is excellent, (attractive cover by Lewis P. Morley) layout very good, and it’s a great …
Surveys
back when I was in my twenties I worked for an advertising company in Wellington’s CBD, (J. Inglis Wright.) I have fond memories of the place, great workmates, pleasant bosses, and a nice workplace. And as a side benefit we were offered extra and well-paid work doing surveys, actual door to door in those days, …
People Have Odd Ways of Thinking.
Many many years ago a man named James K. Baxter opened a place in the heart of Wellington city called The Love Shop. It was like a charity shop, except that everything in it was free . I worked there for some time and it was then that it occurred to me that people can …
Yup, another story sold
Delighted to announce that the Sky Warrior Press anthology THESE VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE, has accepted my story, AND THUS RETURNING, I notice I’m in some good company too, with other tales by Cynthis Ward, David Lee Summers and Dave Riley. And it should be out soon too. Â
I is/Has Gravity
At the con I watched a short u-tube clip, (I can’t see them on my dailup at home) It featured cats and was, if I recall correctly, entitled ‘I is has gravity.’ Actually it should have been titled I is hasn’t gravity, because it showed astronauts (or two men dressed like that) in weightlessness with …
Cat and Conclave
Ever since I got back from Conclave 2, the National SF Convention in Auckland I have had a cat glued to me. It didn’t help that I vanished to town for most of the day, two days after I returned. Or that the next day I was also absent for several hours. Thunder seems to …
Night Broken by Patricia Briggs.
Hardcover published Orbit 2014. I admit to being slightly worried how this series would go when Mercy and Adam married, (River Marked) but it hasn’t slipped a bit. This is the 8th in the Mercy Thompson series and again, it’s an excellent read and a keeper. A portion of the plot is familiar this time, …
Sold a story
yes, just had confirmation that my story, Great Aunt Edna will be in Whortleberry’s Strange Summer Fun anthology. I’ve been selling to this market now since early 2009 and have always found them a very pleasant place. Excellent editors, good bunch of writers, and the anthology presentations are always well done. No, they can’t pay …
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Darn Weather and Reflections on a Cat Park.
31 May 2014
Over that last week we had a couple of nights of howling gales. I came out the morning after the second night to find Thunder insistantly commenting on a problem. I discovered that a whole panel of his cat park trellis had been literally unwoven by the wind and much was broken. My feline friend …
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