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June 27, 2020
Bibliophilia: Don Camillo
I have to thank Peter Grant for allowing me free rein in his library for this. I think I mystified him when I was trying to explain what I’m trying to achieve with the Bibliophilia posts. However, in the process of trying to sum it up, I realized I’ve been saying the wrong thing… Read More Bibliophilia: Don Camillo
June 26, 2020
Hey, Look!
one of my covers in the wild! Amie Gibbons has a new series, and she brought me onboard her team to create the cover. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. The book looks good, too! Hah! You should go check it out on Amazon. Scorpions of the Deep is Urban Fantasy with… Read More Hey, Look!
June 25, 2020
Social Creatures
Inside the human mind is a strange and wonderful place. Humans are social creatures: we are designed to support one another, not to exist alone. These last few months have brought this to the top of consciousness in a way I never expected. I spent this last weekend at a writer’s retreat. It was… Read More Social Creatures
June 24, 2020
Anniversary Day
This was originally published on Sarah Hoyt’s blog just before the First Reader and I were wed, five years ago now. The final line was what we spoke as we leaped a sword together, in symbolism of severing ties with our pasts while clinging to one another for the rest of our lives. Marriage… Read More Anniversary Day
June 23, 2020
The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 19
Last week we left our hero telling the story of the only case he was unable to solve. He was speaking with his Dread Aunt as she stood vigil over his mother’s body, in the dark and drear Hut. If you have not been reading along, I highly suggest that you proceed to the… Read More The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 19
June 21, 2020
Bibliophilia: Tennyson
Most of the antique books I have acquired over the years are still with me because they were books I had read, or was going to read. This one is a little different. The cover caught my eye, you see. This edition of Tennyson’s poetry is bound beautifully. Or it was… the spine is long… Read More Bibliophilia: Tennyson
June 18, 2020
Tricksy Portrait
The First Reader is not quite sure how to react to Father’s Day. He has no children-of-the-blood, but he has stood in loco parentis to children over the years, and feels like he has been a grandfather to more than a few. Now, with the Junior Mad Scientist and Little Man under his roof,… Read More Tricksy Portrait
June 17, 2020
Scorpions and Cherries
One of the benefits of having been a military brat is having been there, done that. I was chatting with a colleague about the vagaries of military life, and assuring her that it had done me no harm to move while I was young. She is waiting for her husband’s first orders, packing house,… Read More Scorpions and Cherries
June 15, 2020
The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 18
Last week the orcish detective pondered his history, and his future, as he continues to look (alas, in vain) for clues to his mother’s murder. If you have not been following along, I highly recommend you begin at the beginning (some 20,000 words ago, now!) and click here. Part 18 I locked eyes with… Read More The Case of the Perambulating Hatrack: Part 18
Heinlein Comes True
When science fiction loses the fiction. Papa Heinlein has predicted many things that came true, but this one… Well, there are serious ethical questions that arise from this idea. But it’s the route that Heinlein postulated in Methuselah’s Children: replacement of old blood with young blood. It’s almost poetic in an abstract sense. Given… Read More Heinlein Comes True
