( Bookstore and library last night. )

I did a little dithering when I first arrived at the barn, and when I finally went outside, Mitzi was standing at the gate in a posture that indicated she'd been waiting for me for some time. I realize a lot of this is the confident expectation of treats, but it's still nice. As Kennie's dad says in My Friend Flicka, it's a fine thing to have a ( Read more... )

One thing I love about my BlackBerry is the ease with which I can find fun ringtones on Crackberry.com ( Read more... )

I've said I was going to do this, but I haven't yet managed it ( Read more... )

According to this blog post, mystery is booming. And it doesn't seem to just be the end of the genre occupied by The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which is also encouraging.

Yeah, guess I should get moving.

Yeah, I said weeks ago that I was about finished with Kowalski 1. This time I really mean it! Over the weekend I finished my final pass through the manuscript, inserting the name of Erica's band where appropriate in the place of "the old band," correcting a couple of minor continuity errors introduced by the rewrite of Chapter Thirteen, and fixing ( Read more... )

Have just submitted a suggestion for purchase to the Halifax Public Library system re: The Weird World Of Wes Beattie.

Am now trying not to waste any more time on the Felony & Mayhem Press website. But--look at all the dandy offerings under "traditional" mysteries! And that's only one part of their collection ( Read more... )

All my friends are used to, and to some degree expect, that at odd times their question, "Whatcha doing?" will be answered with a remark like, "I was just thinking what a good place this would be to dump a body," or "I was just looking up whether something fried in peanut oil instead of canola would be deadly to a person with a peanut allergy, and ( Read more... )

On Thursday, June 3rd, the Carleton is hosting a book launch party for local author Pamela CallowA word or two of explanation: that writing-related garble last night was partly touched off by the memory of attending a panel discussion at one of the local universities. It was part of a more general Book Week and was organized by a writing group ( Read more... )

IN the comments to an earlier entry, neonorne made the point that different writers have different world views. The same is certainly true of readers, which is why sometimes I have to think a minute when I'mreading--in Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett refers to a young missionary, who'd seemed kind of a drip up to this point, as "the kind of person who, if ( Read more... )