So here’s the new addition to my wardrobe, a plastic brace that straps around my leg. This is intended to help my achilles tendon heal. I tore the tendon back in January, and what with one thing and another (including my black belt test) it never healed, and I kept re-injuring it. This is intended […]

Back in April Kathy and I drove the three and a half hours to Portales for the 45th Jack Williamson Lecture, and had to figure out how we were going to entertain ourselves for the long drive across the Llano Estecado. Kathy suggested we listen to the audio book of To Glory Arise, the first […]

I stumbled across a review of Hilary G. Hallett’s Inventing the It Girl, a biography of the potboiler novelist Elinor Glyn, who is credited with inventing the form and style of the Hot Romance in the early 20th century. You’d likely recognize the image of a person in a sleek gown of silk velvet, languidly […]

Audiobooks of The Macedonian and Cat Island, the final two books (of three) about Favian Markham, USN, have been released, narrated by Bronson Pinchot, who is very fine indeed. The problem is that I can’t seem to find The Macedonian anywhere but on Audible’s own site, and there I had to go to some effort […]