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. …
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Summer Daze
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…
Down in the Coal Mine
Coal mines tend to be a long way from where the folks who use their products live, and the miners tend to be ethnic minorities or the underclass. Famous coal miners include Nikita Khrushchev: compared to going down the mine what was the Czar going to do to him? One of the things about TheContinue reading “Down in the Coal Mine”
Say What?
So, there I am over looking at MSN (yeah, that’s how sunken in sin I am) when some of their click-bait, “15 Classic Cocktail Recipes Everyone Should Know” fell under my eye. Since I was engaged in Writing Avoidance Behavior (AKA “Waxing the Cat”), I clicked. And I spotted, at #7 on the list, theContinue reading “Say What?”
The Great War
One hundred years ago today, 28 June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. To one way of thinking, the war that started that afternoon still isn’t over. The way it went down, the assassination happened more-or-less by accident. Six or seven different individuals were trying to assassinate the arch-duke that day. One of themContinue reading “The Great War”