Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
I have successfully obtained a refund for a piece of software that was on the netbook I don’t use any more. I had thought that when I purchased a year’s subscription that I would get a notification when it was time to renew, and would then need to…
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A Magic Set for a Young Person
Consider Peterson’s (formerly Barron’s) Little Box of Magic Tricks. I’ve seen the Ideal 100-Trick Spectacular Magic Show Suitcase well spoken-of. Consider too Joshua Jay’s The Complete Magician Kit. Melissa and Doug have magic kits for younger children. The Klutz Book of Magic includes props and can be considered a magic set all by itself. InContinue reading “A Magic Set for a Young Person”
My Theory on Villainy
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
All good stories need a villain, or, more properly, an antagonist. (“Villain” is so judgmental, really — not to mention classist, since its origins lie in the Anglo-French and Old French vilain “peasant, farmer, commoner, churl, yokel” (12c.), from Medieval Latin villanus “farmhand,” from Latin villa “country house,…
How Long Did It Take You to Write That?
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
This is one of those questions, like “Where do you get your ideas?”, that people will keep asking writers – and like the question about ideas, it’s one that doesn’t have an answer, or at least not the kind of answer the questioner is looking for. Even before…
Boskone, Day Two
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Jim Macdonald and I have a reading at 1 PM in Griffin, here in the Westin hotel, and we’re going to be reading a brand-new, just-finished short story . . . one that we’ve been mulling over for a long time, that finally came together in this past…
JAMES D. MACDONALD 