The Magic Echo Chamber

I’m thankful that the hangover I have isn’t worse. No, I’m really not a party animal. I’m very much a social drinker, and I usually stick to rum or gin because they don’t have a terribly adverse affect on me and they don’t give me hangovers.

Cue last night.

I was out with some friends at the [...]

Rob Bedford over at SFFWorld just posted his review of Book Three of the Osserian Saga, The Commanding Stone. He likes it! (Always good news for me!)

You can read the review here.

This book is like riding a Harley at 110 miles per hour down a deserted interstate in the dead of night. While you’re drunk. And bad guys are emptying guns at you.

This book kicks all kinds of ass.

Sandman Slim is the story of Stark, whose friends betrayed him eleven years ago and sent his living [...]

For those of you not in the publishing biz, there has been a HUGE kerfluffle going on over romance publisher Harlequin’s decision to steer aspiring writers it rejects into its own vanity publishing subsidiary called Harlequin Horizons. While this action by Harlequin may be perfectly legal, morally and ethically it falls somewhere between loan sharking [...]

There’s a nice review of The Words of Making over at SFFWorld.com. Rob Bedford is expected to post a review of The Commanding Stone sometime next week.

Check it out here!

I’ve spent the last hour or so monkeying around with site maintenance gee-gaws. I realized I hadn’t activated the Askimet plug-in, which monitors and filters out spam from the comments. (I can’t believe how many Russian spammers have hit me so far!). I also added a plug-in to monitor web traffic. It’s not Google Analytics, [...]

I went on a two mile run (my back can’t handle much more than that) a little while ago and plan to wok on revisions to THE SAPPHIRE EYE today. And watch some football. And enjoy the weather since it’s supposed to get into the low 70s today. It’s already gorgeous out. So I won’t [...]

I took the day off to stay home with the boys. Even though Veterans Day is Wednesday, the schools are closed today for an in-service day. (I have the good fortune of working for a financial institution, and since the Fed is closed on Wednesday, we are too!) The weather here is great for November [...]

We had a good time camping with Alex’s Cub Scout pack last night. It got cold but not too cold. Two roaring fires helped. The kids went on hikes and played with flashlights in the dark and we retired two flags — a nice ceremony I had never before seen.

There is a very strict methodology [...]