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Almost every night since late February I’ve slept on our deck, watching the star-scape creep westward month by month. Scorpius recently came out of hiding and now the great space scorpion is standing on its tail in the middle of the...
2006 mystery, twenty-third in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Over twenty years ago, a woman vanished; a few days later, the investigation seemed to lose all impetus. Now, after the death of...
I’m always a little suspicious of books that draw on the work of other writers, so when Scribe Publications sent me a novel with a twist on a Shakespearean story, I was a little hesitant to get started on it (which explains why it’s...
For Round 27 of our writing group, in August of 2009, we decided to write short stories that were somehow based on dreams that we'd had. Well, I'd recently dreamed of a giant ant-like alien that was screaming! Weird, I know, but I...
John Wyver writes: After months of preparation The Cultures of Early Television conference takes place at Portland Hall in London on Thursday and Friday this week. A University of Westminster conference, supported by The British Academy,...
📚 Spotted in a charity store, the most ambitious book title I can remember. Can anyone beat it?
Here we are again at Catcott, reputedly named after Bob Geeza Cat, though that might be wishful thinking on behalf of Bob, because he does have narcissistic tendencies - like most cats. The hot weather has finally broken with a sudden...
Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using cunning and planning, their minds always in conflict...
In a previous post I wrote about publishing blog posts using the new standard.site lexicon on atproto, which makes your content discoverable using readers like Standard Reader, and the originators of the lexicon, pckt, Offprint, and...
Somewhere in Los Angeles sits a warehouse of screenplays that will never be filmed. Every studio keeps one, literally or otherwise—a graveyard of optioned premises, abandoned sequels, and high-concept pitches that expired quietly in...
Saturday evening, we head to Greyskull to watch Constance Sojourner and eat chips. The drizzle shifts into a downpour, brief in a bruised sky. R’s been fidgeting for the toilet for a while and finally declares she needs a wee. We dash to...
Work had me in Glasgow for a few days earlier this month, a city I had never been drinking in before, so was pleased to get it some way ticked off, though far from comprehensively, I'm sure. I was based on the western edge of the city...
June 29, 2026 Happy Birthday To Me! I should be sitting in a cafe in Paris when you read this… It seems from your emails that traveling in September is very popular – except for that whole “warm weather? cold weather?” question. Of...
So ahead of seeing the new Supergirl movie, I believed I was in bit of a quandary. As you may have noticed, the film had already attracted some negative chatter, primarily from The Usual Suspects. You know, the folks that regularly...
Let's continue our long series of Big Thunder-related scans, graciously shared with us by the Mysterious Benefactor! We left off from the last installment with some photos of Big Thunder cast members, and the first three continue that...