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Upcoming giveaway...
I have now received my contributor's copies of BG 15. Along with my subscription copy, that means I have three of these giant, beautiful magazines.
I'm thinking that's at least one more copy than I need,
Will try and work out a suitable competition or something along those lines... suggestions welcome. -
Anonymous comments...
...are something I very rarely receive on this blog. I like comments; I welcome them; I am happy to engage with people ( Read more... ) -
It's always interesting...
...to see how one's fiction is seen by others.
I came across this review of one of my Daily Science Fiction stories today:
“Flood Myth” by Brian Dolton (debut 12/09) is a lecture. The narrator expounds on the merits of water. The story is philosophical, pointing out how water is essential to the earth and its relationship to clay.
The story can be ( Read more... ) -
"You're Thor? Tell me about it! I'm tho thore I can hardly..."
Ahem, and apologies to officialgaiman, who used that line in Sandman: Season of Mists. Only he finished it.
Anyway, some brief background. I've been into Norse myth and legend for as long as I can remember. I spent many years as a Marvel fan and only with some reluctance did I relinquish a large part of my "The Mighty Thor" collection when we moved to the US (I ( Read more... ) -
And then there was the bad news...
...I appear not to have a job any more ( Read more... ) -
Ba! music
Yes, it's internet meme time, something I rarely play along with. This one came via thermalsatsuma and is pretty simple, but interesting: five songs, beginning with a letter randomly chosen by the tagger.
My letter (perhaps random, perhaps chosen for my name?) so happens to be a B. So; five songs beginning with a B...
First thing to note; this is only drawn from ( Read more... ) -
Another week already?
How did that happen ( Read more... ) -
Submission burst
In a flurry of unprecedented activity, I subbed three stories this week (one of which has already been rejected... so much for my perennial efforts to get into the Sword and Sorceress anthology), plus I have one under critique which I expect to polish and send out early next (and it's a rare piece of SF, rather than fantasy, so I can have fun with ( Read more... ) -
In which I is published...
... over at Fae Publishing (based here in New Mexico, as it turns out).
"Where The Dacouvri Died" is a story that I wrote in the fall of 2007 while on holiday in south-west France, and it's an homage of sorts to the Cathars and Montsegur (though it was written a couple of days before actually visiting Montsegur itself). It's a story I am very fond ( Read more... ) -
Read, Writing and Arithmetic
(though not necessarily in that order).
I don't read anything like as much as I used to. I grew up a library geek; pretty much every week I'd go down to Godalming library (often walking, a distance of close to 2 miles each way) and come back home with a handful of those yellow Gollancz SF hardbacks or something along those lines. At grammar school ( Read more... )