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Kitchen Archaeology; or, The Return of the Lost Recipe

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
In our current quest to organize the kitchen, the other day I ordered a baker’s rack from Amazon†, and today we moved it into place. This involved relocating the bookshelf full of cookbooks about a foot and a half to the right, which in turn involved first taking…

PseudoScience

The Universityy of Chicago gives away free e-books. Every month there’s a new one, and they’re all swell. This month’s freebie, I think, is one that folks who follow my blog may really like: The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael B. Gordin. I remember reading Velikovsky back when I was inContinue reading “PseudoScience”

One More Day

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A reminder: My annual holiday sale of editorial and critique services ends at midnight on January 5th, 2019. (For the purposes of this sale, “midnight” is 2400 hours in either my time zone — Eastern Standard Time — or yours, whichever is more to your advantage. I’m not…

2018 Is Drawing to a Close

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
And my annual holiday edit-and-critique sale has five more days to run. From now through Twelfth Night (5 January 2019) , my usual rate for a standard-sized novel goes down from $1500 to $1000, and my $2000 rate for 100,000-words-plus doorstops goes down to $1500. Twelfth Night around…

Special Promotion

From now through the 1st of January, two of our e-books are on sale over at Smashwords at a special promotional price: Free. They represent the two major genres in which we work: fantasy and science fiction. So, if you’ve never read any of our books, here you go: Two From the MageWorlds, and TheContinue reading “Special Promotion”