To celebrate the Royal Wedding, Kobo are running a special sale featuring any book with royalty in it — kings, queens, princes, princesses and more. They’ve picked up my Born of No Man novel, the first book in the Once and Future Hearts series. As it’s set slightly before the time of King Arthur, there are […]
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Today is World Whisky Day, which is an excellent excuse to sip drop or two. A Hot Toddy, by the way, is hot whisky with honey in it — a purely medicinal version of the liquor, I’m assured! Whisky was invented by the Scots, and if it is produced in Scotland, it becomes scotch. There are
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Many readers like reading science fiction because of the mind-warping sense of scale that future-set stories can create. You can put a SF book down and feel very humble about the world, and also quite hopeful for the future. But here’s a real life, contemporary times scale-warping experience: Consider the original apple tree that Newton
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I love and adore the King Arthur mythology, and have since I was quite young. So it is a thrill to sink into the stories and recreate the tale my way — in this case, via twelve romances. Why twelve books? Arthur fought twelve battles, culminating in the Battle of Badon Hill, before Britain was free
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I don’t listen to podcasts very often, primarily because I’m so busy concentrating on (usually) writing and producing books, that I just can’t spare the time to sit and do nothing with my hands while listening to people talk. If I was doing a lot of repetitive activities that didn’t require much mental capacity (driving,
I really don’t like zombie fiction. I haven’t watched any of the zombie movies or TV shows. Even the shows that feature pseudo-zombies (disease or infection that turn people into brain dead cannibals) have me reaching for the remote pretty quickly. I don’t know why, exactly, I don’t like ’em. Maybe because the shambling,
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I think this is the first year I have been blogging frequently enough to be able to do May the Fourth Be With You and Revenge of the Fifth on the next day, too. My geeky heart is all aflutter! Today is the Revenge of the Fifth Day, just in case you missed the news. I
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Every year I write about May the Fourth, and every year, it seems, I explain why I cannot ignore the day. So this year, I won’t. 🙂 Instead, I’m bringing forward the most interesting post from previous years. You can also find other May the Fourth posts here and here. Have an interstellar day! t.
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No, I’m not referring to bedroom games. Really! In the continuing series on things we don’t have to do anymore, providing medical care for our families is on that list. I remember reading Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott when I was very young. I was too young to appreciate the setting and time period, so