[from The Heinlein Society‘s Facebook page] “I never “created” or “invented” a “Future History.” On April Fool’s Day 1939 I started to write commercially (appropriate date?); by the middle of August I had written 8 shorts & a serial. As 5 of these items were more or less to the same fictional background, I found…
From Barbara Peters’ January Booknews email, good information for readers and writers–and booksellers–alike. “I include below one assessment of Book World 2026 from our friend David Headley in the UK. It makes me think about the evolving audiences for different books and that it’s important for us as booksellers to recognize evolving audiences. David’s Thoughts: Readers…
And off we went to Killarney on a day trip, to see Muckross House. Noreen made me go. Which is one of those houses built in the Victorian Age (and definitely reminiscent of Wash Gowan’s house in The Harvey Girl) by a blueblood family who had more money than they knew what to do with…
By now you’ve heard about Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, two villages in the Y-K Delta of Alaska that were destroyed by Typhoon Halong. These folks have lost just about everything. Winter is knocking at the door and there is no chance of them rebuilding before it hits, so they have been evacuated to Bethel and Anchorage.…
This is why I can’t read reference works in e. You can highlight in e, sure, and you can search, but searching is not the same as dogearing or sticky noting, and forget about scribbling marginal notations. So I’m railing against Adrian Goldsworthy again, this time because of this passage in Caesar: Probably in late 46…
Essential reading from the Authors Guild for all authors on the first big AI settlement. Read it here, and read it all. (If for no other reason than that you will thoroughly enjoy the cranky judge.) The Authors Guild has its own AI lawsuit, which is still pending. Join the Authors Guild here. Membership costs…
London bookseller turned Lancashire farmer Giles Hoggett takes advantage of a rainy day to turn his back on his wife Katherine’s honey-do list and walk across his fields to check on a fishing cottage sitting on the River Lune. To his surprise he finds a number of unlikely items missing, such as his old raincoat,…
