Currently Playing on iTunes: Wooden Ship, by Uttara-Kuru
You’re going to get the idea that I bought a truckload of books while I was in Canada, and you’d be right. :-) For once, I didn’t over-pack, so I was able to bring home a lot more stuff than I took with me. Just doing my [...]
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Currently Playing on iTunes: Orestes, by A Perfect Circle
While I was away from blogging, I managed to break my months-long reading slump with Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series. I took a trip to Vancouver in late July and bought the first of the series, His Majesty’s Dragon, in a little seaside shop in Gibson’s Landing. I [...]
This’ll probably go right over the heads of the guys I know who read this blog, but the rest of y’all may have seen back cover blurbs that talk about how the hero has been “trained to pleasure” or schooled in the erotic arts in boudoirs all across Europe. You mostly see this kind of [...]
Piers Anthony has the scoop
Posted in Publishing Industry, Writing on Jun 24th, 2007
If you’re a writer considering doing business with a small press, you definitely need to keep an eye on Piers Anthony’s Internet Publishing page. He bases his reports on tips from anonymous sources but does seem to verify information or at least qualify it as unsubstantiated. The history of trouble with companies like Triskelion Publishing [...]
I suspect John, Edie, and Michelle are conspiring to Google-bomb me so that my site will henceforward become known as The Penis Blog. I suppose I’m not helping matters, am I? :-) Well, hey, sometimes you just have to embrace your fate.
Earlier today, I was thinking about Justine Davis‘ The Skypirate, a futuristic romance about [...]
