Happy Birthday, Barbara Ann Cooper. My Mum. My Mum lives in Australia, and believe it or not, she reads every single one of my posts, although some of them have to crisp the hair in her nostrils! She also keeps every copy of every one of my books that I give her, but I know […]
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And while the redhead was away… Top Five Posts for September 1. Really Cool Historical Vacation Spots: Constantinople #1 and still champeen… …but alas, purely because of the images, not because of my deathless research and prose. <sniff> 2. It’s Just A Job – Wood Elves And still #2. Wow! 3. Pulse Pause Moments –
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It’s 48 years ago today that the The Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was released. On September 27, 1964, this most eagerly anticipated report found that there was no conspiracy involved in the president’s assassination, to the utter amazement of almost the entire nation, and the world. Conspiracy theories
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After all my raving about Castle and Beckett a few months ago, did I convince you enough to check out the back episodes and then catch the season three cliff-hanger conclusion during the premier of Season Four on the 19th? I did. So did about eight of my friends and family, all sitting around my
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Interesting but useless fact. Today, 39 years ago, the FBI allowed the first female agents into their ranks, in 1972. I thought that was surprising late in the equality drive, which was already talking about career supression for women (which later became known as the “glass ceiling”), so I thought I’d do a comparison of
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I finally got a new cellphone. Deep sigh of relief. It’s an Android phone — the new Samsung HD 4G Galaxy S. I chose it very deliberately for the width of the screen. I shopped for a cellphone/reader. The very first thing I did, once I had figured out what all the buttons did, was
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Gone With The Wind, a romance movie staple, is 74 years old today. How long since you watched it and sighed over the dresses and Scarlett’s pertness? Actually, I love the movie for the dresses and I love reading the book for the sheer detail and fascination of watching Rhett Butler dash himself to pieces
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I’m geeky enough to get a kick out of designing cool stuff like toolbars, and this one made my day. You can now download my very own toolbar and install it in your Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers, and besides it letting you keep up with my latest news, it will also let you
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If you’re a writer, you might find this an interesting exercise. I’m Spotlight Author of the month over at An Alternative Read this month, and today, I’ve supplied the story starter for the Sassy Story Starter Sunday exercise. It’s a short piece of the beginning of a story, that you can use to fire up
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So now I’ve started up the blog again, you as readers and commentators also get your just desserts. Oskars for talking to me <grin>. Apart from the random draw, these are completely arbitrary and meant in fun. Each winner gets to pick an ecopy book of their choice from my backlist (so Blood Knot is
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