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Books and Museums

Two subjects very close to my heart. Who doesn’t get a little hot under the collar at the thought of incunabulae, grimoires and morocco bound folios?

Surely it’s not only me?

*sigh*

Some people like to dwell on photographs of young men wearing a hat and little else in order to show off amusculature as defined as an anatomical drawing , but a closed book offers far more in the way of mental stimulation, as far as I’m concerned. Also the dust jacket can be ripped and the inside filled with scrawly...

Hump Day Hook

I lost the plot a bit last week and it was Wednesday morning before I remembered that I should have done HDH. Silly me. This week I’ve done it in plenty of time and plan to be a bit more efficient about getting round to register my presence. I read all the entries last week – lots of cool stuff – but was too dopey to comment.

Anyhow! This week I’m using the usual ancient bit of fiction, for which I don’t have a proper title, but if I did it would probably have been something like “The Rake and...

Doodle Tuesday

For the past few weeks I have been contributing to the #DoodleTuesday group on Facebook. This group has been set up in support of the You Will Rise Project which aims to provide a means by which people who have been bullied, either as children or as adults, can express their experiences in any artistic means they choose. The project was started by Linda Regula and Paul Richmond, both of whom were bullied as children, and they have been joined by artist Aaron Anderson, videographer Maria Fanni...

New Release – Anything Could Happen by B. G. Thomas

Anything Could Happen

Blurb: Moving to Kansas City could be the best thing Austin Shelbourne has ever done. For a start, he can stop living a lie and finally come out of the closet. And there’s a chance, though slim, that he might be able to locate the love of his life, Todd Burton. It had seemed like a good idea when he seduced his friend, but Todd freaked out and vanished. Austin hopes to find Todd, make things right between them, and win his love. But when he meets actor Guy Campbell, thing...

Today In the Comfy Chair – Patricia Marie Budd

My guest today is Patricia Marie Budd, Canadian born and bred, educator and author, who is here today to celebrate her latest release, Hadrian’s Lover, a powerful novel about a dystopian future where sexual orientation is legislated and people who don’t conform are persecuted.

Welcome, Patricia.

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Can you tell me a little about yourself? For instance, do you have to have a day job as well as being a writer?

I live and work in northern Alberta Canada where I am teach high school English and run...

Saturday Recs

Sweet Saturday, how I love thee. It’s so nice to wake up with the knowledge that I don’t actually HAVE to get out of bed other than for purposes of comfort ALL DAY if I don’t want to. In fact I would jolly well stay in my pit and read until lunchtime only the other half tends to get testy. Anyhow – I have been reading. What have I been reading? Something very good!

My rec is a bit of a different format this week because not only am I recommending a book but I’m offering a copy of it to a comme...

Fall Into Romance Blog Hop

“Oh season of mellow mists and fruitfulness!” as the poet said.

Or, as we say more frequently round here, “Oh, bollocks, it’s raining again!”.

Autumn is here – Fall, if you live across the pond – and I think it’s a good time to count the summer blessings before girding our loins for the winter blight. The “Fall Into Romance” blog hop from TRR is a grand way to do this because it allows me to pay tribute to one of the excellent books that have made this somewhat difficult summer bearable.

Here’s...

Suicide Prevention Week

We are all familiar with bog hops. Normally they are in celebration of something fun – a holiday season, or a type of fiction, or a type of character. But this week – Sunday 8th September to Saturday 14th September is Suicide Prevention Week and I am taking part in a bog hop to inform, educate and raise awareness of the risk faced by young people and, sadly, in particular young LGBT people.

Some figures – these are for the UK but they are just as scary everywhere else:

In the United Kingdom 12...

Saturday Recs

Saturday again so time for my recommendation. This is part of the SSnS blog hop – click on the graphic to go the list of other participating authors and their exciting snippets.

Last week’s recommendation was for Finders Keepers, a contemporary romance with some archaeology, action and adventure from Chris Quinton – yummy! This week I’m heading way back into history when the things we dig up and cherish now were made and casually used as every day items.

Brothers of the Wild North Sea by Harper...

New Release – Welcome Home, Captain Harding

The latest in the series of Captain Harding novels has just been released!

Welcome Home, Captain Harding by Elliott Mackle

Returning to California after eighteen terrifying months in Vietnam, Captain Joe Harding is assigned a trio of duties: assisting his fatherly former commander at base operations, spying on misbehaving bomber pilots and organizing an air show designed to counter the anti-war fever sweeping the state. Meanwhile, his much younger tennis partner has enrolled at Cal Berkeley, en...