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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 3,174 entries, all of them here in full.
June 26, 2014 · 227 words
New Star on the Horizon
My novelette “Video Star” is now available at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, Amazon, and Baen. Smashwords has probably already distributed it to iBooks and various other sites. It’s a mere $0.99! Which is practically nothing these days! You can get this story for practically nothing! “Video Star” is set in the same
Read entry →June 25, 2014 · 981 words
Arrow
You thought from the title that this was going to be about the TV show, didn’t you? Nope, I’m here to introduce you to an invertebrate. This is an arrow crab (Stenorhynchus seticornis). You can see the pale stripe across the carapace that gives it its name. It’s maybe six inches across if you […]
Read entry →June 22, 2014 · 73 words
Accented
Those of you who intend to go to the London worldcon, or anyone else planning to visit Britain, might pay particular attention here. It has always struck me as unfair that the inhabitants of the United Kingdom spend their entire lives learning to speak charming and distinct dialects, only to have ignorant North America
Read entry →June 20, 2014 · 454 words
1960-2014
Lee Sprague, who was my Kenpo teacher for eight years in the Nineties, died yesterday of a massive heart attack. He was 53. I’ve just come from his memorial at a local karate school. Lee A.W. Sprague— who rejoiced in the acronym L.A.W.S., plus of course his nickname “Lethal”— stepped into a school that coul
Read entry →June 17, 2014 · 333 words
Please Help George
When I mention the name “George R.R. Martin,” I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Hey, didn’t he write some good stories back in the Seventies?” Yes, yes he did. He wrote some great stories. And then George moved out to California, and stuff happened, and . . . well . . . But whatever happened […]
Read entry →June 17, 2014 · 100 words
Majeure Release
My novel The Rift is now available as part of an e-book collection, Force Majeure, in which it takes its place among five other disaster novels by Russell Blake, Karen Dionne, Melissa F Miller, Toni Dwiggins, and Phoenix Sullivan. And the kicker? You get all six books for 99 cents! And even if you’ve already read my [&
Read entry →June 17, 2014 · 309 words
Computers and Morays
Here’s the biggest spotted moray I’ve ever seen. His head and neck seemed kinda large, and then I saw the huge tail folded up clear on the other side of the coral lump he was hiding in, and I was deeply impressed. He’s not as big as some of the green morays I’ve seen, but […]
Read entry →June 15, 2014 · 73 words
Land Legs
I’m back on land, though I won’t be home for another day or so. And I still have my sea legs— the whole world pitches and rolls just a little bit when I stand up or walk. It was a terrific week, and you’ll be reading about it for a while. And in the meantime, […]
Read entry →June 7, 2014 · 292 words
Caribbeaneana
So here’s the first view of the Caribbean, from the seaside here in Ft. St. George. Personally I could have done with more blue sky, but on the whole there’s not a lot to complain about. I’ll be boarding the larger boat on the right tomorrow, for a week at sea. The flight in was […]
Read entry →June 6, 2014 · 64 words
Drop in the Ocean
So I am going to this place. Yeah! I’m going to be on the boat for a week or so, and there probably won’t be Internet there. Or if there is, no bandwidth to speak of. So once I get on the boat on Saturday, posts will be rare, and possibly nonexistent. So I’m taken care […]
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