H(elen) M(ary) Hoover was born on April 5th 1935. Both of her parents were teachers and she says that they instilled in her a love of books, a respect for nature, and a fear for the future of our planet. Themes that show in her writing. She held a number of jobs until deciding that …
April 2013 archive
Sir Julius Vogel Award Nominations out.
My collaborator (Sharman Horwood) and I were delighted to note that our time travel/alternate history Sf novel, QUEEN OF IRON YEARS is on the official ballot. Should this book win it will, so far as I know, be the first GLBT-themed fiction to have won a Vogel, (or indeed to have won any of that …
Tis the Season to be Moulting
And they are. Practically every hen on the place is shedding feathers wildly in all directions. Place looks as if I’ve been gutting feather mattresses, and there are very few eggs to be found. The joys of farming!
Newspaper Articles
I’ve had three in our local paper in the past few weeks. I write articles that are hints, tips and cheap remedies, mostly while saving cash, and I do a few articles whenever I feel the inclination. The paper slushpiles them and they’re used as a Saturday feature when there’s a gap. March saw articles …
A HAUNTING DREAM by Joyce & Jim Levene.
Paperback, published Berkley Prime Crime,December 2012. 4th in series. This has been an interesting series to date. I bought the first one, A Timely Vision, when it came out several years ago and after reading it twice, added it to the permanent section of my library. The premise was simple, Dae O’Donnell is a ‘finder’, …
STRANGE LUCKY MYSTERIES 5 Edited by Arthur Sanchez.
Published by Whortleberry Press USA. Fifth in a series, 16 stories, 1 poem. Guest Reviewer Steve Johnson I was really pleased when Lyn emailed to say this was in. She’d promised I could read and review it and as my experiences with this publisher’s anthologies have always been pretty possitive I was keen to get …
Bad Season for Chickens
Chicken seems to be something of a theme this week… But I was counting hens as they arrived for breakfast this morning and realized that I had almost no one producing chicks this year. The geese, most unusually, laid and brooded once and without effective results. While most of the hens didn’t even seem to …
Story sold – and Out.
Yes, not that it was telescoped to quite the extent it appears from the above, but I was late-ish sending it in, and the anthology seems to have broken the speed record getting here after publication too. So, I can announce both that I sold The Mystery of Lucky to Strange Lucky Mysteries 5, and …
Triviating
Trivia is what newspapers tend to print when they need a space filler. Some items are information, others are odd items, and others are plain incorrect. There’s a sub-set of these which celebrate the really peculiar laws that have been enacted at some time or another in various countries, states, provinces, or counties. And one …
This week was Busy!
28 April 2013
I’ve been scrambing to clear away a long list of writing I’d said to myself I’d have off my plate by the end of April. Not sure I’ll make it, but in the past week I’ve – written 8 short reviews for a UK magazine and an article for them, revised 3 items to date …
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