Several years ago, when on his AOL Community forum, Michael Francis Flynn m_francis asked his ever-bickering faithful fans if they would care to assist him in a story he was writing.
( Secret Mission exposed... )

     I'd like to draw some recognition to some recent or forthcoming ventures into public performance by people I know.

Ladies first:

I finished Jeri Smith-Ready's smashing YA-SF novel Shade this morning.  This book punches all my buttons:  search for identity, love, loss, & redemption.  Great for any age reader.

I met Jeri when she and ( Read more... )

    December winds swept in my good acquaintance Lisa Scottoline to Borders to promote her newly released Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog, an expanded collection of her columns from the Philadelphia Inquirer, written in the tradition of Erma Bombeck which Lisa forthrightly credits with alleviating the doom and gloom infesting the news.

To the ( Read more... )

     Events have overtaken me since last fall and a number of posts were not written in a timely fashion because of those significant intrusions.

So now let us return to the snows of yesterday...

When we last left off, it was Friday night at Philcon at the hotel grill & bar.

Just outside of the eatery entrance, within view of where I sat ( Read more... )