Category Archive: Chitchat
News
Thursday, March 27th, 2008A couple of brief items, foremost among them: Darren Turpin, known to some by the spritely monker Ariel, is the man who made this website. He did a fine job, too, as you can see by looking around. More, he has maintained it expertly since creating it despite my periodic attempts at smashing [...]
Swiftly proofs
Friday, December 14th, 2007The proofs for Swiftly are here, and I'm going through them with a fine tooth comb. A toothcomb that is fine. A comb with fine teeth. One of them. Well, I say that ... The fact is I'm rubbish at reading proofs, so my wife (who has The Gift when [...]
I am edged gem?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007SFRevu seem to think so; viz., comments by John Berlyne:
Roberts, whom I always think must be the hardest working writer in the world, is a real shining gem of British genre fiction and one with many, many facets. No two books of his are alike, and his particular skill is extrapolating an entire novel from [...]
Back
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Been away. Back now. Big pile of papers on the welcome mat when we turned the key and tried to swing the door, making it hard to open more than a sliver. Most of this pile was free newspapers, fliers, junk mail and the like. Some was more substantial material that needs dealing with. I've also been spending the [...]
Welcome Back
Friday, May 25th, 2007A long haitus, almost half a year. Part of this was standard downtime, when there was little to report; part of it, on the contrary, was me being too busy with various other stuff to find the time to update the site. Now, however, the estimable Ariel has redesigned the creaky old homepage, ported it over [...]