Pre-Order is Your Friend

October 18, 2021

Lord Quillifer, the third in my fantasy series, is scheduled for release in February. If you want hardcopy, I’d advise preordering now. American publishes are worried that various economic factors will cause shortages at the printer, and many books are already being delayed. And I am sure that however benign my publisher’s attitude is toward […]

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NO8DO

October 14, 2021

Up early in the morning for the long drive to Andalucia and the city of Sevilla, followed by a check-in to a hotel so trendy, overdesigned, stylish, and chic that practically nothing worked. It was next to impossible to login to the wifi, we couldn’t get the AC to function (and in Sevilla, where the […]

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Fate

October 14, 2021

So we skipped across the border to spend a couple nights in Lisbon (because why wouldn’t you?). I hadn’t met anyone who spent time in Portugal who hadn’t loved it, and though we only spend a couple night there, I quite took their point. Beauty, history, kindness, and Fate. Plus great food and night life. […]

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Monastic

October 7, 2021

We spent one night in the Hacienda Zorita outside Salamanca, a former monastery now converted to a hotel, vineyard, and farm. The hospitality included a tasting of Zorita’s own wines, followed by a supper of chicken and veg grown on the property. The breakfast the next morning was phenomenal: organic eggs, bacon and ham from […]

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Happy to be Seen

October 6, 2021

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a foreign country where so many people were so happy to see me. Not just happy either, but ecstatic. I don’t think it’s because my charisma has vastly increased in the last few years, it’s because 20% of Spain’s economy is dependent on foreign visitors and their money, […]

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Landmarks of Dubious Purpose

October 3, 2021

We are zooming about Spain with our friends Terry and Jim, who I’ve known since we were in college. Here we see Terry, in a typical pose, offering a salute to Generalissimo Francisco Franco at the Valley of the Fallen. This colossal basilica, longer than St. Peter’s in Rome, topped by a 500-foot granite cross, […]

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Taking the Bull by the Tail

October 1, 2021

First night, I decided to dive right into local cuisine. This is a dish of bull’s tail, braised to perfection. Moist, tender, flavourful, and just a bit gelatinous. When I stuck my fork into one of these cuts, the meat just unrolled from the vertebra without any further encouragement from me. Of course the evening […]

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I Am In Spain

September 29, 2021

Envy me!

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New/Old

September 26, 2021

Not only is there a new Praxis book in the pipeline, there are new old Praxis books either on offer or about to drop shortly. What happened was this. Audio rights to the first three Praxis books were purchased by Audible some years ago, for not a lot of money, and recorded by the excellent […]

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Deerie Me

September 22, 2021

Here’s a new friend I made over the weekend. The scarcity of people in the pandemic has made animals less shy around people, I guess, and she let me hang around for quite a while. This photo was taken from maybe ten meters away. Kathy had a major home improvement project scheduled for the weekend, […]

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