Yesterday I thought it was about time to go on-line to the International Cat Writers association and see if they’d posted the AGM announced information on final Award results. That’s when they read out and present to you – if you’re there – the MUSE MEDALLIONS for the current year. I found that the new …
November 2012 archive
A TURN OF LIGHT by Julie Czerneda.
published DAW, march 2013. Review is of uncorrected proof copy. I first ‘met’ Julie when her book, A Thousand Words for StrangerĂ‚Â came out in 1997. I read that in one mighty gulp, and LOVED it. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and I voted for her. …
Rare Breeds Society
yes, I belong to that, and yes, they do a very smart glossy newsletter/magazine. In which, when it arrived this week, I had a short true-life item about the gaggle – Goose Events. Recently someone who had to be escorted down the lawn, since the geese are in laying mode and terminally belligerent, asked why …
My, My, My, It’s Beautiful Day
It is too, and so that we get the message about summer being on the way, today has decided to give us a foretaste of that with a brilliant cloudless sky, and temperatures forecast to hit 27 degrees by early afternoon. They were already into the 20s when I finished breakfast around 8.30. So, for …
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JPEGS and Holdups
11 November 2012
It’s been something of a hassle this past few weeks as I tried to get an assortment of artwork for my newest DAZE book through to my publisher. The jpegs range from around 700kb to well over 2000kb and as I’m on dialup, this can take not only forever for the smaller ones, but the …
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