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July 2, 2012
Monday
It’s a grey Monday morning in Yorkshire and I’m wasting my coffee break on Pinterest again. Meanwhile, there are gangs of baby cows hoppety-skippeting in the field behind the house and baby blue tits being fed impossible quantities of bread-and-butter-bird-block on the feeder. You’d think it was Spring, but it’s bloody July and dark as twilight, threatening rain. Again. I fear I shall never get the washing dry.
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In other news: I really want one of these! Not sure how wise a choice this would be if camping in the American woods. Might get shot… or worse O:! Click on the pic for details.
A big thank you to everyone who bought and liked Entanglement over the weekend. People are reading – and liking! Reviews are promised.This makes me glad.
And now my coffee’s getting cold – developing one of those horrid thin skins on the top that are impossible to remove but make me panic slightly, make me want to scream, make me think I’m under attack by zombies if I get any in my mouth. I shall have to be a woman and deal with the situation by means of a jug and a tea strainer and/or sieve.
Welcome week 27, please be kind to us all.
June 30, 2012
This can’t be real, can it?
Someone’s having a laugh, surely?
A Belsize Park woman whose home was broken into 13 times in a week claims police told her to exorcise her flat as they suspected ghosts might be behind the break-ins.
From London24. Click on the picture to read the rest.
June 29, 2012
NDEs, OOBs and other mysteries
I have a lot of work to do, so naturally, I find myself drinking far too much coffee and aimlessly browsing t’internetz; specifically the endlessly fascinating Out Of Body and Near Death Experience. My Dad had one, once; I’d love to tell you all about it but I’m too busy doing laundry, fighting the interminably vile weather and trying to get my Dad ready for a family do tonight to write it up now, but here are some links I think you’ll find interesting:
June 27, 2012
Free BATDIG for all!
Just a very quick post to say BATDIG part 1 is now free for five days (until midnight on the 26th June 2012, in fact) on Amazon – I have checked the .co.uk site and there it is, in all its free glory but .com doesn’t seem to have caught up just yet. Apparently it can take hours for the various sites to show the promotion after the start date.
Go forth and buy!
June 26, 2012
Review: The Teleportation Accident
by Ned Beauman
4*
This is such an unusual book; what is it really about? Is it really about the Teleportation Device invented by of the 17th century Venetian inventor Lavicini, a event shrouded in mystery and intrigue? Is it about the attempts of various scientists to recreate Lavicini’s teleportation device for use in WW2? Or is it really just the story of Egon Loeser’s failing life, his failure to have the girl of his dreams, his failure to have any sex at all, or even find a new copy of his favourite pornographic book, his failure to understand anything of what is happening in his Berlin hometown, becoming a `refugee’ by accident.
I honestly do not know. The Teleportation Accident is as perplexing as it is confusing as it is strange. I was more than halfway through before I had any idea at all what was happening, or even begin to really get inside the story – was there a story? I still can’t tell you that there was. What story there was mainly about Loeser’s attempts to bed the girl of his dreams, who seemingly sleeps with every man she meets except poor Loeser. And what on Earth was the last chapter about? I ended up feeling it was best not to question anything but simply enjoy the glittering ride.
I loved the characters, Egon Loeser especially, who is wonderfully ineffectual, lazy and useless. His story flits and leaps through time and space by means of a linguistic style that is gymnastic, elastic, brilliant. The massive cast of characters are delightfully mixed and strange. It’s a sort of comic novel, I think – I’m pretty sure, it seemed very funny to me; calling the love interest (with shades of The Dangerous Brothers) ‘Adele Hitler (no relation)’ was a typical example of this book’s genius.
There are many wonderful quotes I could use to illustrate Ned Beuman’s extraordinary style but will settle for:
`That wasn’t actually Brecht by the way, said Achleitner. `It was Vanel, but he happened to be wearing one of those long red overcoats like Brecht always wears.’
`So why was there all that commotion by the door?’
`It turned out he had a corkscrew on him.’
In short, I enjoyed it enormously. I still haven’t a clue what it was about.
June 23, 2012
How Amazon Saved my Life
Re-blogging from IndieReader
How Amazon Saved my Life by Jessica Park
I am an author.
I still can’t get used to that title, but I suppose after having written seven books–five of them traditionally published–that’s what you’d call me. The funny thing is that I feel more like a real author now that I self-publish than when I had the (supposed) support of a publisher behind me…
Click on the logo to read the rest.
June 22, 2012
Author pages
Seizing on my treasured new status as ‘published writer’, I now have some author pages.
Make ‘em work for it, baby.
Reblogged from Write Drunk, Edit Sober:
I just finished a book that I rather enjoyed, but which, interestingly, I could tell was never going to be—and likely was never intended to be—a book with mass-market appeal. It was a spec-fic exploration of post-human humanity, packed with prognostication, humor, and purposeful anachronism. To me, it was great fun, but I recognized early on that many readers would lack the patience to plow through its relatively slow and complex beginning.
Slow beginnings are fine, sometimes
June 21, 2012
Entanglement
Is published today. Yes, I am excited, but also a wee bit frightened.
361 pages of pure golden paranormal loveliness for a bargain price:
£1.53, $2.40, €2.60
ISBN: 978 1 62050 572 4
ASIN: B008D29OWM
