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Still here
So once again not only have I not written anything here for months, I have not read anything here for at least two weeks. It is perhaps a measure of my life that I can measure how long it's been since I last read my DreamWidth feed by the last Oglaf comic I remember having already seen.
There are various and sundry reasons for this, not least the ( Read more... ) -
defunct email addresses
Thought I'd better mention that my old Demon email addresses have gone the way of the dodo, and did so some time ago. I can't remember whether I mentioned it at the time, and it's always possible someone's tried to send stuff there and never heard back, not even a "no account at this address" bounceback. That includes all of the email addresses at ( Read more... ) -
RIP Pol
I think there are one or two of my friends who knew Pol who read my DreamWidth but not the ones where the news has already been posted. Paul Brown, also known in fandom as Pol and Dapol, died suddenly on Monday. A memorial page has been set up - details are on his wife's Dreamwidth at https://supermouse.dreamwidth.org/81836.html.
He was 46.
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Book review: Graeme Aitken - The Indignities
This is a serialized novel about a gay man in Sydney not dealing well with hitting thirty. The novel is structured so that you can read each part is an individual story, with its own closure rather than a cliffhanger.
Stephen Spear is an actor currently out of work, but having done well enough out of a stint on a soap opera to have bought a ( Read more... ) -
Book review - Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine - Double Life
This is a joint autobiography by an actor-turned-producer and an artist, from their teens before they met as young men struggling to establish their careers, through the twists and turns of those careers, and finally their legal marriage four decades later.
It's a story about how gay men lived and were treated in the US over the course of decades. ( Read more... ) -
So that was 2020, and good riddance
Well, that was a bit of a year, wasn't it?
A year ago I was sitting traumatized by the images of Australia burning, with no idea that two days earlier a doctor called Li Wenliang had tried to raise the alarm about a new type of SARS coronavirus that seemed to be spreading. A few weeks later I was looking at flights for a year later, i.e. round about ( Read more... ) -
Hello 2020
I did mean to post something on New Year's Day, honest gov. It's just that I didn't take any extra time off that week, and I was fairly tired after staying up to watch the fireworks for not-the-end-of-the-decade-for-another-year. I also meant to post the 10 year retrospective everyone else was doing, but that went bye-the-bye as well, not least ( Read more... ) -
Lord and Master re-issue
I'm busy getting my Loose Id titles back into print with the sterling help of Alex Beecroft. First up is Lord and Master, with new cover by Alex below. What I would like before I drop this on my Official Author Website is some help with link testing. I'm using Draft2Digital to push the book to retailers other than Amazon, and they have a Universal ( Read more... ) -
Hello, I appear to be a writer
Only a month since my last post. Things are improving.
Anyway, in between my various medical appointments I have been working on getting some of my old Loose Id books back up as self-published ebooks. I could not have done this without the generous help of
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2018 - a brief summary
2018 wasn't a lot of fun, for reasons given at length in a locked post, but which can be summarised as I spent it being not well. I'm still not well, but things are slowly getting better ( Read more... )