I don’t know about you, but I use Wikipedia all the freaking time. It’s great for quick fact checks, it never out-dates* like a printed encyclopedia would, and it always scratches my rather large and eclectic curiousity. So when I tripped over the fact that it was International Wikipedia Day today, I just had to give the […]
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January is Time Travel month here on the blog, which mysteriously coincides with the release of Celtic Crossing in a couple of weeks – book 5 and the last book in the Beloved Bloody Time series. I thought I would bring forward some of the time travel posts I’ve written over the years, to whet your
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This painting is simply amazing. [link] Not only is it an incredible canvas of many famous people gathered together in a sort of celebrity Where’s Waldo?, but when you hover your mouse over any individual — and some of the objects in the painting, too — you get a tag telling you who they are. Click
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You have to undestand, this is not a question I’ve ever asked myself. I’ve been reading science fiction for so long that my answer is a silent “d’uh!” However, since I started publishing science fiction romance in late 2015, I know I have converted quite a few romance readers to the charms of science fiction. Later this
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Today is national Braille day and I thought it would be appropriate to acknowledge Braille, as for nearly a hundred years it has provided blind people with a way to read. Braille was invented in 1824 by Louise Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight when he was a child. He built Braille to suit
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I tripped over this site a few weeks ago and bookmarked it as something to check out when I had time. Hollow laugh. So, even though I haven’t yet looked into the site, or assessed the quality of the fiction they offer, I thought I would draw your attention to it anyway. Serial Box offers
A Different Sort of Fiction Read More »
I thought the passing of Carrie Fisher was really the topper of the year, but no — her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed the very next day. Well before Carrie Fisher’s death, people were already saying what a horrible year 2016 had been for unexpected deaths of celebrities, unexpected political outcomes, depressed sales, and much more. My
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There are many images of trees in snow out there, but I particularly like this one because it was taken in my home province of Alberta. For those of you celebrating Christmas, I offer yuletide greetings. For everyone else taking a very welcome break from work, enjoy! If you’re in a country that doesn’t recognize
I spend quite a bit of time in the science fiction sub-categories on Amazon and I have watched the Space Opera sub-category turn into a bastardized playground for military science fiction. Nearly every book in the top twenty is a variation of an aging spaceship and captain and their plucky crew saving the known worlds from
Finally, Space Opera that Actually IS Space Opera. Read More »