Today is National Donut (or Doughnut) Day in the USA, which I think is pretty cool. Not because America has a national day for doughy round dietary disasters, but the reason for the day is interesting. Of course, there’s history attached to it. D’uh. The Salvation Army actually founded National Donut Day in 1938 to […]
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A week ago, I wrote a post about World Whisky Day. My father-in-law, who is a Glenfiddich aficionado, and who also likes Canadian Rye, demanded to know why I didn’t inform him of the event so he could properly mark the occasion. I also got a lesson on how Canadian Rye is made. Research for
Llike countless others, I have to toss my hat into the GDPR ring, too. I’m sure you’re totally sick of these notices and re-opt-ins and yaddah-yaddah-yaddah-blah-blah-blah. However, it’s part of the new regulation that you be informed of the new standards of privacy and any changes to those practices in the future. This is the
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I came across a post on Bored Panda recently, and within it, they were raving about Lake Hillier – the pink lake. The pictures are pretty amazing. I was kinda jazzed, because Lake Hillier is in Western Australia, my home turf. In fact, it’s just off the coast of Esperance, which is along the bottom of
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Sometimes, internal industry shenanigans spill out to where the public can see it. This is one of those times. Recently, an author registered and trademarked the word “cocky”. Then she contacted every author who had the word “cocky” in their book titles or subtitles or on the cover anywhere and threatened them with legal action
It’s so appropriate I get to talk about this book today. Today is Victoria Day in Canada. Season of Denial is a Victorian era historical romance. It is book 7 of the Scandalous Scions series, and this is the first time the cover is being shown to anyone (except my Street Team!). ___________ He’s a
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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