...but Facebook has polluted my mind and attention span to the point where I can no longer either read or write anything longer tha

OK, now you've read the interview (see Part I), and had a look at Jonny Nexus's website with the info on Game Night, it's your turn.

To win a copy of Game Night, write a drabble, below, in the comments section. The theme is roleplaying game comedy. A drabble is a short story that's precisely 100 words long. The writer of the best drabble, as judged ( Read more... )

The clever & talented Jonny Nexus is currently on a Blog Tour, to promote his very funny gaming comedy novel, Game Night. We agreed that he'd stop by here, for an interview with me. There'll be a contest after this, too, in Part II. My questions are in black; Jonny's replies are in red italic.

1) I thought about writing an intro to the book, myself ( Read more... )

That's Non-Denominational-Mid-Winter-Gift-Giving-Festival to you (thank you Melvyn for the great name ( Read more... )

Always fun to do this one ( Read more... )

So, I've managed to mostly keep up with my attempts to do long slow distance type cardio at least 3 times a week, and judo once a week, but haven't managed to keep lifting weights at least once a week too. :( And I am starting to feel it. My knees, dodgy at the best of times, become a morass of pain if I don't do heavy squats on a fairly regular ( Read more... )

This is my first blog article for 63336's new blog:

http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/the-63336/when-search-engines-are-not-enough/

It's been some years since I dared expect anything more than (at best) light-hearted, fast-moving, melodramatic tosh from any Russell T Davis-scripted episode of Doctor Who ( Read more... )

 Clark Ashton Smith (pretty well my favourite 1930s pulp fiction writer) -- I've mentioned The Eldritch Dark website before, where most of his work is archived, but thought I'd point out a couple of my favourite stories there:

The Planet of The Dead

This is science fantasy, technically, I guess, but it reminds me of Poe more than almost anything else ( Read more... )

 A lot of people have been suggesting that Bernard Cornwell's _Azincourt_ is his best novel ever.

I can save you all the trouble of reading it by saying that it isn't, and that it's fairly typical medieval Cornwell -- about as good as his Grail books (Harlequin etc.). The Sharpe novels are better, and the Warlord Chronicles and Saxon stories are a * ( Read more... )