I noticed that today would have been Julia Child’s birthday. I remember seeing her on TV when her cooking show was new and I was young. I remember her voice and the fact that she made it look like no matter what happened, or what went wrong, it was okay, because who’d know what went […]
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One Fine Cowboy by Joanne Kennedy Sourcebooks Casablanca, ISBN: 978-1-4022-3670-9, pages 416 (List: $6.99 / Amazon: $6.99 / Kindle: $4.79). Charlie Banks is a graduate student in psychology who is looking to do research on non-verbal communication, especially between species. Her advisor has sent her to a clinic at Latigo Ranch with Nate Shawcross who […]
Finally, a weekend day with no appointments or meetings scheduled. Managed to do the shopping for food and mail out books and made it to the bank before checks were too old to cash. Didn’t get to recycling though so guess that has to collect until next week — we don’t have a trash pick […]
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. Published by Sourcebooks. ISBN: 978-1-4022-4136-9, 387 pages including index. Trade Paperback. $14.99 (Amazon: $10.19; Kindle: $9.68) Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester is just what the title implies, it’s a book about the Regency World that made up the background for Heyer’s Regency books. It helps to […]
As those of you who read this blog regularly know, I’m the chairperson of Capclave 2010. Capclave is the Washington Science Fiction Association’s annual convention, held this year in Rockville, Maryland. Our guests of honor this year are Connie Willis, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer. There will also be many other guests — writers, editors, […]
The Washington Science Fiction Association is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction (published in 2009) “each thing i show you is a piece of my death” by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer, published in Clockwork Phoenix 2, edited by Mike Allen, Norilana Books (July 2009). […]
Conquering Mr. Darcy by Abigail Reynolds, Sourcebooks Casablanca, August 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4022-3730-0, 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback. [Note: Previously published as Impulse & Initiative: What if Mr. Darcy had set out to win Elizabeth’s heart? (Pride & Prejudice Variation)] To Conquer Mr. Darcy, by Abigail Reynolds, is truly a “What If” novel. The critical question […]
We’ve lost power off and on this evening but this last time it’s seemed to stick and we’re still without power after 30 minutes. I realize we’re lucky but nothing has happened near us this evening the storm was hours ago at 3 p.m.-ish and it’s now 11 p.m. Oh, well, guess I get to […]