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A Brief Note on Current Events

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
In a sane and rational world, it shouldn’t be necessary to state for the record that I thoroughly disapprove of alt-right supporters neo-Nazis white-supremacists dirtbag racist whackaloons holding torchlit rallies, chanting racist slogans, beating up counterprotesters, and ramming cars into crowds of people with murderous intent. It would…

Another Sign of the Changing Times

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Our printer died the other day, somewhat to our surprise. It was an HP Deskjet 6940 — in other words, a fairly sturdy office model — and it really shouldn’t have reacted so badly to having been taken for a car ride to Peabody, Massachusetts, and back again.?…

One-Sitting Reads

The mail brought our latest authors’ copies of an anthology with one of our stories. This is Science Fiction for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads edited by Tom Easton and Judith K. Dial. A collection of very short stories, mostly if not all reprints, by authors including Jo Walton, Greg Benford, Fran Wilde, Cat Rambo, andContinue reading “One-Sitting Reads”

Ice Cream Wizard

And so things come full circle (of magic). The first novel that Doyle and I wrote together was the (still unpublished) Ice Cream Wizard. A fantasy/SF crossover with some great bits — including the Secret Origin of Doc and Beka (two characters who you’ll remember from the Mageworlds series.) Anyway, I went to the IceContinue reading “Ice Cream Wizard”

Make Friendship an Action Figure

Help convince Mattel to make Friendship the Magician from RAW (it’s pro wrestling) into an action figure for their upcoming Festival of Friendship series. Sign the petition! Mattel is producing a Festival of Friendship set as part of their Epic Moments series. But one character is missing, Friendship the Magician. To some Friendship was aContinue reading “Make Friendship an Action Figure”