Looking for something to do this summer? By July we should be well into the After Times, so — look for the Before Times with the Maine Renaissance Faire. Four days: July 17, 18, 24, and 25. This is a lot of fun, great performances, interesting food, and a wonderful site. One of the performersContinue reading “Maine RenFaire”
Category Archives: fantasy
Paint it Black
Let me introduce you to something that I just learned from my sister: The existence of fan music videos for the BBC series Robin Hood (2006). Specifically, for Guy of Gisbourne (played by Richard Armitage, who went on to play Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit). Apparently, for beautiful young ladies, Guy consistently gets “shag” inContinue reading “Paint it Black”
A Minizine
The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine is very amusing. Check it out. It wouldn’t kill you to support it, either.
In the Mageworlds
So there we were in the Republic of Panama, living in downtown Panama City rather than on base. We were big science fiction fans, and there was only one importer of English language books in the country (Servicio Lewis) and they only got new books once a month, and their SF list was …Continue reading “In the Mageworlds”
Circle of Magic
Speaking of which, a bit on the origin of Circle of Magic. Those middle-grade novels started off as paragraphs and pages that Debra and I wrote to each other before we were married while I was in the Navy; she in Philadelphia, me off in the Med on USS Savannah (AOR-4), she in grad school. Continue reading “Circle of Magic”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 