I’m hosted over at Patti Abbott’s blog where I reveal: “How I Came To Write This Book” How I Came to Write this Book, K. A. Laity THE MANGROVE LEGACY Kit Marlowe, Tease Publishing, Dec 2010, ISBN 9781607671275, $5.99 In 2002, I moved to Houston, Texas with my husband. I hadn’t quite got around to…
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Friday’s Forgotten Books: Bend Sinister
It’s a bit cheeky suggesting that a Nabokov book could be “forgotten” but I think I can make a case here. After all, Amazon lists the most recent edition as the one from 1990. But first let me mention this fabulous design by Carol Carson for the Nabokov Specimen Box Project, a fantastic design project:…
The Oxford Odyssey, Part 1
Arrived in Memphis Friday, spoiled by getting free wifi on both legs of my journey. Despite a nervous few minutes at Albany, I did get on the overbooked flight and got to Memphis ahead of a rather nasty storm, which we could see from the plane. Miss Wendy picked me up and we headed to…
Bits and Bobs
Over at Patti Abbott’s blog, you can read the final installment of La Ronde, the round robin story in which I took part. The fun of these things is that they take a lot of unexpected twists and that’s certainly the case here. Vastly entertaining. Perhaps the strangest news story regarding wombats ever… It’s possible…
Review: Tamara Drewe
How can you go wrong with Posy Simmonds as your source (and Thomas Hardy as hers), a script by Moira Buffini and a stellar cast guided by Stephen Frears? Well, you can’t go far wrong at all, it turns out. Tamara Drewe is great fun, lots of laughs and a few tear-worthy moments. Admittedly, I’m…
Friday’s Forgotten Books: Lord Malquist & Mr Moon
Although a bit late in the day (just got home this afternoon and had to spend some time soothing Kipper’s complaints about being abandoned for a whole day and a half), I wanted to try to get back in the habit of writing up a “forgotten” book for Patti’s round-up of titles. “Let it be…
Hanging with the Rom Writers
You’ve already seen the tiara; that was just one perk of Authors After Dark. My roomie Susan and I were both attending for the first time. We had planned to attend with our pal Debi, who knows everybody and is a real bon vivant, so we had some trepidation, being natural introverts. But Stella and…
Reminder: WLoAD needs women!
Call for Submissions “Passion. Vision. Daring. Humour. Any alone will be intriguing–but to have them all is to be sublime.” That is the mandate of the new journal for the Women’s League of Ale Drinkers, for which I am editor. We seek only work that meets these criteria, the output of creative women who may…
Albacon 2010, Oct 8-10
Hey kids! Especially you locals — we’re only weeks away from Albacon, the capitol region’s only spec fic con which runs from Friday October 8th until Sunday the 10th, with oodles of fun stuff for you to do and see. Writer GoH: Allen SteeleArtist GoH: Ron MillerFan GoH: Lisa Ashton Plus we just got news…
Necon is: Mini-Golf
I got my best ever score: 43! It was only one point off the winning score, although there were I think four people who all got 42, so I probably won’t win a medal. But we sure had some fun! Phil and Anya were entertaining, as always. Tonight, the traditional game show and the traditional…