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As promised on Saturday here's news about my upcoming eNovelette, Magical Crimes. News and some sample covers. I've cross posted this post to the SFNovelists and BVC blogs.

Authors are capricious gods. We’re always interfering in the lives of our characters. We hate it when life’s too easy for them. We crave conflict and struggle and whenever the ( Read more... )

I'll be posting more about this next week. The story's done, I've got permission to use the cover art, I've created some test ebooks in various formats. Now I'm finishing off the cover design and working on the press release ( Read more... )

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I can now officially announce I'm a member of the Book View Cafe author collective. What's Book View cafe? It's a group of professional authors getting together to explore ways of using the internet to distribute their work more widely. Currently there are more than thirty members including the likes of Ursula K LeGuin, Vonda McIntyre, Katherine ( Read more... )

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Some of you may remember this about how two years ago I discovered my father had been one of the nine sailors who recovered the enigma machine and code books from a U-boat in 1941. Now I have the pictures!

The first one is of the destroyer HMS Bulldog lowering a whaler (a large rowing boat) into the water.


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After five months waiting for a weather forecast promising a fortnight without rain so we could replace or old barn roof, we finally weakened and grabbed the promise of one week. We’d strip half the roof, replace the rotting timbers, re-slate and pray another dry week arrived before the first autumn storms ( Read more... )

For those who haven't heard, Dave Freer needs help. Because of deteriorating conditions, he and his family will be emigrating from South Africa to Australia. A family that includes 4 dogs and 4 cats, all of whom will be need airfare and quarantine. Because of sinking exchange rates the money saved up is no longer enough and he's come up with a plan ( Read more... )