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Presented for Your Amusement

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
A bit of seasonal humor, from the archives of The Toast:? The Passive-Aggressive Guide to Book Gifting.? As always, read the comments, too; The Toast is one of the few sites on the net where doing so adds value to the experience, rather than making the reader despair…

It’s Thanksgiving, Again.

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
At least, in the USA. (Canada has been thankful already.) And speaking as a writer, here are a few things I’m specifically thankful for: The personal computer revolution, which came along just in time to enable an epically bad typist like me to produce submittable manuscripts that didn’t…

A Spare Scene from Yet Another Unwritten Novel

“That was the first thing we noticed,” Dalmatia said. “The copy-machine was broken.” “Broken? How?” “The cover-glass was cracked. And when we opened the front cover, we found a photocopy of someone’s bum jammed in the fuser.” “That would have been before you found Fred’s body.” “Yes. He was hidden behind the coffee cart. WeContinue reading “A Spare Scene from Yet Another Unwritten Novel”

Tonight

I’ll be down in Bradford, Vermont, tonight, doing street magic for their Midnight Madness merchants’ thingie. Starting around six p.m. See you all there. And when you see me, tell me what card you were thinking of.

Yet Another Scene

The man ran for cover. As he approached the fence the author put out a hand to stop his flight. “Where do you think you’re going?” the author asked. “Up and over that fence, if it’s all the same to you,” the man replied, panting. “You’re planning to confuse your motion, horizontal and vertical, inContinue reading “Yet Another Scene”