Yes, Autumn of the Wild Pony is now available as print or download on http://www.bananaoilbooks.com/autumn-of-the-wild-pony/Â This is the sequel to Summer of Dreaming, and is the second in my ‘four seasons quartet.’ I’m eagerly waiting for the print copies – as is our local school which were promised a copy for the school library once …
May 2012 archive
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – Manly Wade Welman?
Manly Wade Welman was born in Angola on May 21st 1903. His parents were medical missionaries there and he was descended from colonial Virginia stock as well as having some Native American ancestry. While he wrote a wide variety of works from short stories to books, he is best known for his Appalachian Mountain fantasy/horror …
NZ PO and the Paper
It occured to me recently – but doesn’t seem to have dawned on the major newspapers as yet – that if NZ post do as they say they are considering doing and drop postal deliveries to three days a week, this will massively impact on newspapers. Why buy a newspaper subscription to have the paper …
Still Wet Around here
and it is. The impression given last month was that it wasn’t that damp – until I checked my records and discovered that April’s total had been 90mls, or some three and a half inches of precipitation. We’re just past halfway through May, and I checked records again today to find that we’ve had 38mls …
THE MAGINOT LINE anthology, edited by Rob Redman.
Volume three, published by The Fiction Desk, April 2012. softcover. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This was a damn good anthology. All the stories were a great read, and it was clear all of the writers knew what they were doing. The editor’s also been smart enough to go for quality over quantity and produce a …
An Afternoon Out
An invitation to speak on my children’s ‘Troll books” at a local school saw the artist (Judy Giddens) who did those with me, collect me early afternoon and whisk me away to chat to some 30 small children at the South School. It was pleasant, kids often ask penetrating intelligent questions and it’s always a …
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, by Donna Andrews.
published St Martins, Minotaur Mysteries, 2003, paperback. I was at Emoticon, the NZ National SF Convention in Auckland when this came out and Barbara Clenden of Barbara’s Books strongly recommended it. I bought it because Barbara had been selling books to me for years, and was very accurate in knowing what I might like. On …
Story sale
Yup, Over My Dead Body liked my story, The Truant, and have accepted it. This mystery magazine is one with which I’ve had a l..o..n..g association. I sold them a story not long after I began writing professionally, (which appeared back in spring of 1994, a hard-boiled detective parody – The Good Old Days.) So …
ANOTHER Gunman?
28 May 2012
And yes, this is in real time. A friend just came racing in to say that our area is about to be swamped in police. Apparently a local man has locked himself into his house with firearms and the Armed Offenders Squad has been called out. But what is it with our tiny village? This …
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