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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Just Been To See...The Rise Of Skywalker!

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So, today I went to see the final Star Wars movie in this saga, The Rise Of Skywalker. I won’t be giving you any spoilers here. I held of...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

On Discovering I Have A Wiki Page!

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I’m ending the year with something light. And here it is!  A few days ago, my nephew Mark, who is very good at finding stuff on Googl...
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Friday, December 27, 2019

Two Rereads And A New Book!

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I’ve just finished my reread of the wonderful The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, which I started as a Christmas Eve read. Strictly speak...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Compulsory Christmas Eve Post 2019!

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Last year at this time I was celebrating Jolabokaflod, the Icelandic Christmas Eve, where you exchange books as gifts and spend the evenin...
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Monday, December 16, 2019

Yet Another Grumble From The Slushpile!

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I’m back again with more complaints about my slushpile. I’ve done a few posts about this before, but not recently. For those of you wh...
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Of Women In Science, And A Play About Rosalind Franklin

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Back in the 1990s, I wrote my second book, Potions To Pulsars: Women Doing Science , a children’s book about the history of women wh...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

A (Writing) Day At A Seaside School!

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On Tuesday I went with Ford Street to a school writer’s festival in Mt Eliza, a rather beautiful suburb by the bay. It was a long trip, so...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

On Authors Behaving Unprofessionally!

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Recently there have been online discussions about a young woman in the US who got on a committee that was choosing books for study at her ...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Rejoice! John M Ford Soon To Be Back!

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Well, not John M Ford himself, who died some years ago. But his wonderful books have mostly been out of print since he died, and now they a...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

On Romantic Comedy!

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A chat on Twitter the other day gave me the idea for this post. A lady who writes romantic comedy was bemoaning the fact that she was snee...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Remembrance Day And Great War Books

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So, 101 years ago today, World War I finished. It was a horrendous war, with a lot of deaths, and afterwards there was the Spanish Flu epi...
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