If nothing goes wrong, AGRICULTURAL DAZE will be appearing early next year. This was after discussion with the publisher during the Australian national SF Convention (Continuum 8) which I attended, and the book was agreed for early 2013. The DAZE series has always been huge fun to write and it certainly has hung in there. …
July 2012 archive
Fishpond has me baffled.
It occurred to me today to check if my latest book, QUEEN OF IRON YEARS, is around in New Zealand. I googled, and find that Fishpond is selling it. That is, they have the correct cover, publisher, author, book size etc. details on the physical book. What they don’t have right is the blurb – …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – NAOMI MITCHISON?
Naomi May Margaret Mitchison lived a very long and interesting life. She was born Naomi Haldane in Edinburgh on the 1st of November in 1897 and died on the 11th of January in 1999 at the age of a hundred and one and she remained writing until well into her eighties. Mitchison came from an …
THE THIRTEENTH CHILD by Patricia Wrede
published by Scholastic 2010, softcover. One of the books I’ve recently purchased is Patricia Wrede’s Across the Great Barrier. However I decided before reading that, to re-read the first in this series, THE THIRTEENTH CHILD. It could be loosely described as a weird western, in that you have the more civilized east, the wilder west, …
On Modern Travel
It occurred to me while tearing from home to Auckland to Melbourne and back home again recently, how much we now take travel for granted. I was driven to Palmerston North, a trip that took us an hour by car. By horseback it would have taken my ancestors several days. I flew to Auckland, also …
An Overearly Spring?
And no, it isn’t, but I have a lamb all the same. It may be that the friend’s ram I used (Basil) was a bit lazy this year and didn’t get on with it until later than usual. Because the first lamb that normally gets here in May, arrived this week. In fact it was …
Second New Book – AUTUMN OF THE WILD PONY
And just before Queen of Iron Years, I also saw the second in my ‘four seasons quartet’ appear. AUTUMN OF THE WILD PONY (with a foreword from Julie Czerneda) is out from the Banana Oil Imprint of Cyberwizard Press in America, and I’m also very happy to see that book appear. It’s set a year …
New Book – QUEEN OF IRON YEARS is out!
Kite Hill finally has my collaborated (with my friend Sharman Horwood) alternate history novel, Queen of Iron Years, available to the public. The book took Sharman and I four years work to complete so we’re extremely happy to see it available. It may be controversial, one main character is transsexual, the other main character is …
Wet! Wet!! Wet!!!
31 July 2012
and yes, it certainly is here. We’ve had several heavy downpours over July, but also a steady trickle of showers and drizzle. The average for a July is around 90-120mls. A wet July may yield 164/5 as it did last year (and in 2000.) However this year July isn’t quite over and this morning my …
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