Hadrosaur Press does a good magazine entitled Tales of the Talisman, and in the past year I’ve been happy to find two stories accepted. The first, a brutal weird Western entitled, I shall Do Nothing, is due out shortly. This second sale is of my fantasy noir story, Realities. TotT seems to prefer my more …
March 2013 archive
THE BUZZARD TABLE by Margaret Marron
hardcover published Grand Central (Hatchette) November 2012. I discovered Margaret Marron’s Judge Deborah Knott books by being sent an anthology of legal women fiction back around 2001. An American friend was a book reviewer and thought I’d like his copy once he’d reviewed it. I did. I read the Deborah Knott story (amongst the some …
Theoretical rain
At least, according to the weather forecast we’re getting some this afternoon. But I’m not taking any bets on that. The last half a dozen times that’s been said – there’s been nothing, or a miserable half-ml. In fact that was what we had last night. Not a lot for thirsty pastures, frantic farmers, and …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – John Levitt?
John Levitt’s first book Dog Days came out from Ace in November of 2007. And yes, usually the books/authors in this Overlooked series come from a lot further back in time. In this case I made an exception because it looks possible that the four books the author had out between 2007 and 2011 could …
The Speed of Dark: Strangely Different and Disturbing (Anthology)
Edited by PDR Lindsay & CC Bye. Available in print or download. Reviewed by Glenda Johnson. And yes, they’re right about this. It’s not that different from some horror anthologies that I’ve read, nor did it disturb me to a huge degree. But yes, some of it was still a bit different and slightly disturbing. …
Dry, Drier, (Driest?)
Yes, it’s moving on towards official. If we don’t get solid rain in the next few weeks Farside will have a drought. The geese are annoyed about it, the council (who have to keep fiddling about with water pressure) are annoyed about it, and since I have to keep fiddling about with the water inlet …
Couple of Items out/sold.
Lucky Break magazine is a useful venue as well as being an excellent magazine to read. Frankly I despise most of the celebrity magazines in which all you read about is people who are famous for being famous, and who behave stupidly, criminally or disgustingly. With LB (and That’s Life, a similar Australian magazine) you …
GHOST OF A DREAM by Simon Green.
Paperback published ACE, September 2012. Third in a series. Due to various circumstances this only arrived in my mailbox a few days before Christmas. I opened the padded envelope, and pounced on the book, reading it immediately and doing this review to file and run once I had time. Dream is the third in the …
Not so Theoretical Rain
28 March 2013
And subsequent to my last farm report we got real actual rain. Not as much as we’d have liked, but it was sufficient to keep us in the holding pattern of “dry but not impossibly so.” Over two days it dumped 50 mls or two inches on Farside. We’d have liked double or even triple …
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