I usually try, as much as I can, to keep real life off this blog, but not today. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one transfixed by the live news feed covering the London riots. Please, let’s get one thing straight. This is NOT civil unrest. This is wanton violence. Gangs of thugs are waging […]
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Are digital magazine subscriptions the future?
I came across this post on the io9 blog, and actually went “SQUEE!” when I read the announcement. It seems that the seminal fiction magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is going digital. It’ll be available for the Kindle, with both a stripped down free option, or a subscription to all of the […]
Seven Random Facts About Icy
I’ve been tagged for another Versatile Blogger award. This is the third time I’ve had it, after both Danielle LaPaglia and Grace Motley handed it out, but now the awesome Tony Noland has bestowed it too. So here you go. Seven More Things About Icy 1. My favourite Disney character is Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent. 2. […]
The Air of Resignation
I’ll be honest with you, I’m not really accustomed to blogging about myself as a person – I’m far more comfortable blogging about my writing career, or my ghost hunting exploits. What I do, I feel, is far more interesting than who I am. However, there are occasionally events in life that prove momentous enough […]
It’s the End of the World (as we know it)
The Internet is abuzz with “Is the world going to end on Saturday?” I, for one, hope very much that it doesn’t. Firstly, because I don’t like it when crackpot predictions turn out to be right (though I suspect their period of gloating would be short-lived) and secondly, I think it would be a bit […]
20 Things I Miss
Yesterday, over on her Kommein blog, Deb Ng posted a list of thirty things that she misses. It really got me thinking, so I couldn’t help but make a list of twenty things that I miss. I would have done thirty but it would have essentially boiled down to things I miss about my home […]
