pretty! juicy colours!
If you log onto the current Lambda Literary Foundation website, you’ll see a juicy new splashpage fitted over the old-style content. You’ll…
Read moreMonth: January 2010
Macmillan loses (R for Language)
I’m feeling too jaded to watch my mouth, so don’t read this if you’re easily offended. Here’s my pro forma comment on…
Read moreslate
From: Olen I would just like to comment on how the technology form of the “slate” in Slow River has pretty much…
Read moreiPad!
The Apple tablet is called…iPad. It’s a giant iPhone. It looks good. 10 hrs battery use, a month standby. (Not sure I…
Read morenominating women
Nominations for the Hugo Awards (basically a Readers’ Choice gong for f/sf) are open, and over at the Feminist SF blog, there’s…
Read morecustomisable books
Very interesting blog post over at Dear Author about customising car dashboards, and smart phone displays, and, eventually, ebooks. I agree with…
Read moreBook Industry Study Group e-book survey
There’s a new study out in publishing town, the BISG survey on e-book consumerism. (Via Richard Curtis.) New York, NY (January 15,…
Read moreChristopher Lee, Charlemagne, Prince Gryffyth
As usual, my head is full of all sorts of thoughts about all sorts of things, tumbling about like puppies in a…
Read morethe world is full of sun
Wow, sun is actually pouring across the lawn and into the living room. Pouring. I’m seeing colours in my house that I…
Read morea pause in the rain
Yesterday, unexpectedly, the rain stopped for a while. After the mad-squirrel event of the morning (the post caps are still all cattywompus),…
Read morewhat’s the plan?
Today I’ll be busy doing many things, including having a life. My plan: make a cup of tea, take it and a…
Read moreA Story for Haiti, and other linkage
The good folks at Crossed Genres have come up with a great way to help the people of Haiti. “We wanted to…
Read morethe LLF has a web producer!
Okay, here’s what I’ve been working on for LLF. The official press release: Antonio Gonzalez Named Web Producer for LambdaLiterary.org FROM THE…
Read moreLGBT aid to Haiti
I don’t pretend to know how bad it is in Haiti after the earthquake, but it’s very bad. They need our help….
Read morelesbian ants in our pants
Perhaps I’ll just let this one go by without comment. Oh, oh, but wait. Here’s another, only this time me and the…
Read morethis and that
Still busy on Mysterious Projects but there’s a lot going on on teh intarwebs to keep you busy while I’m doing other…
Read morethe drinking of the Belgian beer
Okay. It turns out that I like very fresh Belgian beer when golloped down sipped decorously from the correctly-shaped glasses. Affligem, founded…
Read moreAmmonite and Howard Carter
Books placed in Howard Carters house in Luxor by a Friend of AN. Ammonite (and Dangerous Space) on Howard Carter’s desk! Apparently…
Read morethe Apparatgeist
I cam across a lovely new word last week in the Economist: apparatgeist, in a most interesting piece “The Apparatgeist calls.” ‘How…
Read morescary links for writers
Today I’m going to point you to Sterling Editing and our weekly links roundup for writers. This week’s linkage is all about…
Read moreSherlock Holmes gay? shut down the franchise!
Some tutting here from Andrea Plunket, the US copyright holder of the Sherlock Holmes stories, about the Holmes/Watson bromance. From Cinematical, here’s…
Read morea tide of ill-informed good will: more about blockbusters
Well, okay, it looks as though the Economist has already said everying I was trying to say yesterday, and said it better….
Read morethe nature of blockbusters
I’ve been thinking about art and commerce and why a blockbuster is unlike other books. A long time ago, the Associate Publisher…
Read moreBlueSolitaire, a new discussion list
A few years ago, a book lover built two email lists, BluePlace and Ammonite, for the purpose of discussing, respectively, crime fiction…
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