I posted this cartoon (with sincere apologies to cartoonist Sidney Harris) over on Facebook, and an American friend said they’d been trying to follow some of the Brexit news, but frankly it was all a bit confusing (and as if there’s not enough confusion to sort through in the States), so I wrote a very brief primer and answered some follow-up questions, all of which got a nod of approval from some British friends, so I’m going to post it here, too, for those who are baffled but would like…
For a few years there I was keeping up on a TBR shelf posting pretty regularly, but the last couple years I fell off badly. However, inspired by 1. an ever-growing TBR shelf (againstillalways) 2. an EMBARRASSINGLY low number of books read last year, and 3. a conversation with a friend I have decided to declare 2019 the Year Of Clearing The TBR Shelf. I may also declare it the Year of Re-Reads, as I really want to re-read John Lee’s Unicorn Saga to see if I still need to…
People have asked me, as they do every year, to put together a list of what I had published last year that could qualify for a Hugo nomination. I don’t normally get my act together enough to do this, but a combination of elements, including 1. Worldcon is in Dublin this year! 2. I’m very proud of last year’s novel! and 3. Somebody else did the hard lifting and I’m able to use that for the basis of my post means I’m doing a proper one this year. I’ll put…
I’ve been having a think, and here’s what I’ve been thinking. I’ve got an artist for the next TAKE A CHANCE story arc. I need to be able to pay him, tho. If I can get my Patreon up to 250 patrons, at the average of $5/m that people are paying, I could afford to pay him for 4 pages a month. 300 patrons? 8 pages a month. (I can’t afford to pay him very WELL, but I could at least pay him. :)) It’d be a sneak peek/early, probably…
Well, my first personal trainer workout at the #fancygym this morning went really poorly. I arrived slightly early and the PT was 15 minutes late. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure he was *only* 15 minutes late because I asked more than once about where he was. On top of that, there’s a verbal quirk in Irish English that probably comes from something in the Irish language, where people often end a sentence with “so” or “like” or “okay”. Normally I don’t mind that, but the guy who was trying to cover…