Up at 4:48. Bloke commented on my Khanya blog, where I had mentioned Arthur Blaxall, saying he was writing a book on Arthur Blaxall and wants to talk to me about him. I reply by email and say fine, I'd be happy to ( Read more... )

I'm witing this in Read an Ebook Week, and I'm hoping that some of the children's literature fundis[1] I follow on Twitter will be moved to read and review or critique[2] one or more of my children's fantasy/adventure books ( Read more... )

I am wondering if any member(s) of the Mythopoeic Society would be willing to consider nominating my children's novel The Enchanted Grove for the Mythopoeic Awards for 2021.
The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature honors books for beginning readers to age thirteen in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for ( Read more... )

I've been having some very weird and confusing discussions on the internet recently, mainly on topics relating to the previous three postings in this journal. and especially these two: Christian responses to zombies and vampires and Tarot cards as a plot generator.


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Someone asked  in an online forum the other day how one could use Tarot cards as a plot generator for writing a story..

When I think of Tarot cards I usually think of Charles Williams and his novel The Greater Trumps, where Tarot cards are central to the plot and I've also used them in some of my own stories as plot devices, but this sounds like ( Read more... )

Social media are pretty antisocial ( Read more... )

Up at 4:02. I did a little more family history, then we went to Makro to try to get a new ink cartridge for our Brother printer, because I knew they stocked them there, and did not at the Computer Mania shop in The Grove where we had bought it, They had changed ( Read more... )

I’m pretty busy right now, working on four books at once:

1. Fr Athanasius’s thesis on Orthodox dialogue with Bunyore culture
2. Michelle Coetzee’s book on the filioque impasse
3. Revising my own doctoral thesis on Orthodox mission methods for possible ( Read more... )

I haven't written much at LJ recently, and when I have written it is often, as it is today, a pointer to stuff I have written elsewhere. One reason for that is that the other places make it easier to post pictures, though that is not the only reason. Fo here, for anyone who is interested, are some links to stuff I have written otherwhere than here ( Read more... )

Ten years ago I wrote a children's novel. I couldn't find an agent interested in even looking at it, so eventually it was buried away in a directory on my computer and ignored.

Then a couple of years ago I learnt about NaNoWriMo, with its challenge to write a 50000-word novel in a month.

I'm a great fan of Charles Williams, and have read and re- ( Read more... )