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February 2010

Snowmageddon Part 2…

We woke up this morning to this only with more fog… The fog has lessened a bit but the sky is so grey.  The snow is light but the wind is blowing so it’s hard to focus on anything out there except what’s close to you. The birds have been crowding the feeder, we had […]

The storm is over & skies are clear — so far

We had a heck of a bad storm over the weekend. It started snowing on Friday and ended late Saturday night. For the first time in just about forever, I managed to take photo before the storm got going. As you can see, we do have some snow left from the 1/2 to 1 inch […]

An Interview with Marsh Altman, Author of Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape

A Contest: The Sourcebooks, the publisher of Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape, is willing to support a giveaway for the US and Canadian readers of this interview. Leave a comment on the post and I will chose a random comment author on Sunday February 7th. I’ll contact the winner to get their snail mail address. Winner […]

Review: Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape by Marsha Altman

Marsha Altman continues the story of The Darcys and the Bingleys in Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape, bringing us to 1812. This is book three of the series following The Darcys and the Bingleys and The Plight of the Darcy Brothers. While the lives of the major characters have continued since Pride and Prejudice, Altman has […]

Ode to Urban Fantasy Book Covers

A friend pointed me to this YouTube Video about the sameness of urban fantasy book covers and the poses of the female protagonists. Go ahead take a look. The problem is that often, if not nearly always, authors have no control over their book covers. That’s why a red-headed heroine might be on the cover […]

WSFA Small Press Award Committee accepting nominations for works published in 2009

The Washington Science Fiction Association [http://www.wsfa.org] has created of a literary award to honor the work done by small presses in promoting and preserving science fiction. The WSFA Small Press Award will be given yearly for original short fiction works (17,500 words or fewer) of imaginative literature (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror, speculative fiction or […]