So far the day has been spent in another lengthy round of trench warfare with my tractor, Beam. Veterans of the late, lamented Genie and dm.net may remember the tragicomic history of my relationship with this machine. When I first moved to the country I acquired Beam, a Murray tractor with a powerful Tecumseh engine. […]

The online auction to benefit the Clarion Foundation begins today. Clarion is, of course, the premiere workshop in fantasy and science fiction. The proceeds from the auction will benefit the workshop. Please drop by, spend money, and come home with nifty items. I know I want Howard Waldrop, in his Peter Lorre voice, answering my […]

We pause for a moment of self-glorification. This news just in: The Praxis is going into its fourth printing. The Sundering is in its third. Conventions of War went into its second printing earlier in the summer. Holmes, I detect a pattern here. It’s time to bite the bullet and admit that the series is […]

Father Gabriele Amorth, who is official “caster-out of demons” to Pope Benedict XVI, has declared that Hitler and Stalin were possessed by the devil. In fact, according to Father Gabriele, the entire Nazi party was possessed! Glad we’ve finally got to the bottom of that mystery. All those books and papers offering one tortured psychological […]