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BLUESKY…Tiz NOT I

…At least not yet…

 

I have heard that I’m now apparently on the social network BlueSky, but alas that’s not me. So if you  followed me there I’m sorry to say it’s an imposter.  BUT I will likely be starting up an account there soon, so keep an eye out Here on my BLOG or Facebook social page and I’ll let everyone know when I make the switch and what my handle is going to be.

 

Thanks to all my friends who made me aware of my Bluesky doppelgänger!

 

Film Festivals

If you’re around for a Film Festival or two check out UGLY CHICKENS with Felicia Day at the following locations and dates. 

We’re so proud of Howards stories  coming to life and being able to share them you!

MMRGLA Skins Film FestivalShorts Block Program 2Thursday November 21st at 7p at the TCL Chinese Theater6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028TUCYellowstone International Film FestivalMonday November 18 at 5p-9pAmerican Center, 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Near Barakhamb Metro Sta...

Film Festival Drop

If you’re around for a Film Festival or two check out UGLY CHICKENS with Felicia Day at the following locations and dates. 

 

We’re so proud of Howards stories  coming to life and being able to share them you!

MMRGLA Skins Film FestivalShorts Block Program 2Thursday November 21st at 7p at the TCL Chinese Theater6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028TUCYellowstone International Film FestivalMonday November 18 at 5p-9pAmerican Center, 24 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Near Barakhamb Metro ...

A Stop at Oxford

Oxford is a legendary place.  One of the world’s great universities, and the literary capital of England, rich with history, it has figured in more novels than I can count, including many classic works of fantasy.   Philip Pullman’s amazing trilogy HIS DARK MATERIAL is set there.  So is BABEL, OR THE NECESSITY FOR VIOLENCE, R.F. Kuang’s Nebula-winning bestseller.   It was the model for Hogwart’s in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and a lot of the Potter films were shot there.   And of course ...

London Towne

London was the third stop on our summer travels, as July turned to August.

The first time I visited London was way back in 1981.   That was also the first time I left the USA, except for the time I went to Canada for the Toronto worldcon in 1993; I was over in the UK for six weeks on that first trip, traveling everywhere from Scotland to Cornwall, on the theory that if I was going to cross that great big ocean, I might as well see everything there was to see.   I did not even come close, needles...

Lift the Torch

I was born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, a city of about 70,000 just south of Jersey City in the greater New York metropolitan area.   Bayonne sits on a peninsula, with New York Bay on one side and Newark Bay on the other, the two of them connected by the deepwater channel called the Kill Von Kull.  For most of my childhood I lived across the street from the Kill.  I could watch the freighters come and go, day and night, flying flags from all the countries of the world.   The Bayonne Bridge...

Kristian Is Coming

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, and this year it will be more exciting than ever.

Kristian Nairn is coming to Santa Fe.

He’ll be signing his book, BEYOND THE THRONE, at Beastly Books.

And afterward, he will DJing our Halloween Party at the Jean Cocteau Next Door.

The signing is free and open to all.

Tickets to the party can be purchased from the Jean Cocteau website.

We’ll hold the door for you.

The Canals of Braavos

After Ashford, we went to Braavos.

Or Amsterdam, as the Dutch prefer to call it.

A  lot of my readers think that Braavos was inspired by Venice.   Because of the canals, of course.   Thing is, though I’ve read a lot about Venice, histories and travel books and the like, I have never actually been there.   I have always wanted to visit, Venice is plainly a magical place, and if I had a bucket list it would right up there… but somehow I never found the time.   One day, I hope.   When the novel’s d...

A Tourney at Ashford

After Belfast, the next stop on our summer travels was Ashford Meadows, where I’d heard there was a tournament going on.  No way I was going to miss that, so off we went.  Rumor was that some Targaryen princelings would be attending.

Yes, I am talking about the newest GAME OF THRONES spinoff show.   It’s an adaptation of “The Hedge Knight,” the first of my Dunk & Egg stories.  There were two more after that, “The Sworn Sword” and “The Mystery Knight.”  They have all been collected in a book call...

Westeros in Belfast

The last time I visited Northern Ireland was in 2019.   Worldcon was in Dublin that year, and a week later there was Titancon up in Belfast, a small regional that a number of the members of the Brotherhood Without Banners helped put on.  There was no way we were going to miss that.   So we hopped in a car and headed north, from Dublin to Belfast.

We enjoyed ourselves at Titancon, but Belfast had other attractions as well… one of them being the Paint Hall, where the big ships were painted in the ...