Author Archives: jamesdmacdonald

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
There are a lot of reasons – ours isn’t a job famous for encouraging a sense of security at the best of times – but this sort of thing is one of them. A middle-school teacher in Maryland has been placed on administrative leave and “taken in for…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
The Scots poet Robert Burns wrote, famously, of being able to look at oneself as an outside observer: O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion… For writers seeking to…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Today’s peeve, for those of you who are collecting the whole set (also for those of you who aren’t; I’m not particular) is orbs. Not the literal ones that are carrying out material functions, such as being part of some monarch’s regalia, and not the non-material ones that…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
… then you might consider also being here, between 6  and 8 PM. Star Cat Books is hosting a reading and signing by authors Miranda Neville and Skylar Dorset, accompanied by an English cream tea (scones! clotted cream! jam!) It’s where I’m going to be, at any rate. …

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
‘Tis the season for muggy, oppressive weather, the kind that saps the energy and destroys the initiative . . . not the best kind of weather in which to be doing revisions, but still, revisions must be done. A few of the things that get taken care of…