Month: April 2018
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Tuesday’s Tour Talk!
Visiting Joanne Hall today to talk about culinary nonsense! Check it out: https://hierath.wordpress.com/
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Today is the Day! Scylla and Charybdis out (ebook)
Today is the day! My space opera / soft science fiction novel, Scylla and Charybdis, is now available! Check it out HERE!
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Three Laws Safe?
As a software engineer, I have more than a passing interest in the field of Machine Learning (ML). I don’t work in that field, but I have spent a lot of time exploring the data structures and code used in the field. I certainly don’t consider myself an alarmist, but a few things are clear about…
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Wednesday Wanderings – What’s In A Name?
Some writers use placeholders in their works instead of character names, using Find-Replace when the right name comes to them. I can’t even imagine being able to do that. While I’m not a writer who gets clever with hidden meanings and inside jokes, to me, a name becomes inextricably bound up with the character. I…
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State of the Pembroke
So…. Pilgrimage to Skara, my second completed novel (the first shall never see the light of day), continues to garner, uhm, “stellar” reviews. See here, here, and here, for the latest reviewer feedback. Muse: You did earn all those reviews, you know. It’s your own damn fault. By the way, if you have morbid curiosity,…
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Song Styles
Since it was put together when I wrote the novel, most of my Scylla and Charybdis soundtrack is older. My music tastes have drifted and acquired new nuances since. But there is one more recent song that I simply had to add, because it …
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Goodreads Review: Did You Say Chicks?! ed. Esther Friesner
Did You Say Chicks?! by Esther M. FriesnerMy rating: 3 of 5 starsI really wanted to love this anthology: parodies of sexist sword and sorcery stories are right up my alley, and I’ve always enjoyed Friesner as both an author and an anthologist. Some of …
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Wednesday Wanderings – How It Started
I never intended to write a novel. Scylla and Charybdis was supposed to be a short story. In hindsight, I’d never written a “real” science fiction novel before: I’d dabbled in it, but they were all terrible, straight up fantasy-in-space, or both, written when I was too green a writer to know better. (There’s a…
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Guest Author Interview: Frances Kay
I’m not the only excellent author at Grimbold Books, and today, fellow author Frances Kay visits, interviewed by the titular cats, Grim and Bold. (As a person owned by two fluffy white dogs, I cannot endorse cat supremacy, but cats are sometimes as wonderful as dogs. Sometimes.) Here’s Frances’ intro:What are Dollywagglers? A dismissive name…