There are very few times I can honestly say I've been sideswipwed by events in my life, but I can now add another one.  Someone who I had been told had died in a car accident after we had lost contact with each other back around 1980, sent this email ( Read more... )

A six part series about a gay Australian SF Club?  Strewth ( Read more... )

As seems to be the way these days, networking is more than just sticking an RJ45 up your router stack.

Masochists and long time readers of this crap will remember my comments about the Harper Collins Authonomy site (SPAM as many other members as you can, get them to review your book and that way it gets pushed up the ratings until to reaches the ( Read more... )

He's taken it out ( Read more... )

Captain Beefheart died aged 69.  The first album I bought was an old American import of Safe As Milk, then Strictly Personal.  The rest is a history littered with amazement, enjoyment, and a continued listening to a back catalogue (though I could never, ever, get into Troutmask Replica - and believe me, I've listened to some seriously weird vinyl ( Read more... )

After the last burst of news, here's a little more.  For some time I've been pushing to get my writing group up on line - and believe me, some of them make a basket full of kittens look evil, such is their bountiful good intent.  But now, as of this evening, I can say that ( Read more... )

Krist!  Ya can't type, download, and multi-anything with Livejournal open, can you?  At least not without it throwing in some hi-ASC characters as well...

I've not been posting in here for some time, and for various reasons (one of which has been keeping Steve 'Boy' Green's need for episodes of Boardwalk Empire sated...)

Anyway, apart from getting the first rejection for the second novel (Jenklow & Nesbit rejected on the grounds their books were close to being full, despite having run ahead and asked ( Read more... )

"Sending an International Reply Coupon with your mailing means the recipient can reply to you for free or by paying only part of the postage cost. You can buy the coupons from most large Post Office branches for just £1.40. Then whoever you send the coupon to can exchange it for international postage at a post office in their own country. They ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I've not been posting for some time is that I made a strange decision recently. It was in part influenced by something I read in Writer's News magazine, and also because at the time I thought it might actually be a useful resource.

I joined www.authonomy.com, and uploaded the Harry Rhimes novel.

For those not in the know, ( Read more... )