Jennifer Fallon's Blog, page 9

I am soooooo over computers....

Today, for no apparent reason, I lost both monitors on my main computer.
I am writing this on the laptop. Tomorrow I will go back to my friendly local computer shop, and organise for them to come out and fix the problem. I'm assuming it's the g...

Support your local poet...

Time for a bit of karmic restitution, me thinks, and a plug for a talented young writer.
Ashley Capes, whom I've mentored as a fantasy writer for a number of years now, has just had a book of poetry published (by a real publisher with royalties and ...

Let's all take a deep breath...

So... I kinda set the cat among the pigeons with yesterday's blog, which really wasn't my intention.
Having done it however, I'd like to add a few words about why I did it.
Firstly, everyone calm down. There are far more serious things going on in...

I know I shouldn't, but...

A couple of weeks ago, I got a Google alert about a would-be author by the name of David Wagner.
I don't bother to follow up every amateur blog review out there that Google alerts me to. Life's too short. But this one was too good to pass up, so I f...

Are these the dumbest criminals ever?

Check out these two brainiacs who were arrested were arrested trying to rob a home with permanent black magic marker scrawled all over their faces as a disguise.







Wouldn't you be proud if you were their parents?

German cover of The Chaos Crystal (Der Kristall des Chaos)

OMG... How awesome is this cover!







The German covers for the Tide Lords series have to be my absolute favourites!



This one is due out April 2010.


 

One of these things is not like the other...

THe US paperback cover for The Gods of Amyrantha has been unveiled. It's due out May 1, 2010.

See if you can tell the difference between the Hardcover and the Softcover editions:

T-shirt of the week...

My kids reckon I should get one of these because I'm easily distrac...

The Geek Cat strikes again...

While I was out today, Declan the Psycho Pussy tried to send Sonny Whitelaw an email and download an episode of Glee.
Seriously, he did. And the scary thing is, neither program was open when I left this morning...
This is Deccie and his puppet. We'...

A word from Sarah Palin on how smart she is...

I know... I always say I'm not going to talk politics, but now Sarah's a fellow author and not a pollie anymore, I figure she's fair game.

This woman utterly intrigues me. Or rather, the media fascination with everything she does intrigues me1. An...