Okay, kidlets, here are the numbers you’ve been waiting for. The number in between 1 and 1,000,000 that I picked for the Farworld Giveaway was 654,231. The Grand Winner of a signed ARC of Farworld: Water Keep is Ivan Girl, with a guess of 555,555 (98,676 off of the total). The Grand Loser of a [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Things You Want to Know
Hello, internet. I’ve noticed some interesting search terms directing you here lately. So I thought I’d answer your questions: art of belligerent email I’m not sure that there’s a particular art to it, but if you’d like to write something truly belligerent, I’d suggest the following. Use complicated insults (“your corpulence is Brobdignagian, you aberrant [...]
BTT: Doomsday
One of my favorite bookstores burned down last weekend, and while I only got to visit there while I was on vacation, it made me stop and think. What would you do if, all of a sudden, your favorite source of books was unavailable? Whether it’s a local book shop, your town library, or an [...]
blog troubles
Messed something up and am having some duplicate postage. Please ignore duplicates (seems to be in RSS feed only). All should be back to normal soon.
Banks Rattle Me
One of my favourite Stephen Leacock stories, “My Financial Career,” starts this way: When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of the money rattles me; everything rattles me. The moment I cross the threshold of a bank and attempt to transact business there, [...]
Course Registration
Egad! I register for classes for my final year of undergrad tomorrow morning. And true to form, I have left it till tonight to pick said classes. Go self! It’s a bit intimidating, actually, just because I have to sort out all of my requirements so that I can, you know, graduate on time next [...]
Review, Interview, Giveaway: Farworld and J Scott Savage
[I] Review! When I got sent Farworld: Water Keep, by J. Scott Savage, I didn’t start reading it right away. I had been in the middle of a slough of Terry Pratchett novels (well, no surprise there), and was reading for school as well, and so it hung around on my desk for a week [...]
Review: Runaway, by Steve Simpson
Runaway, by Steve Simpson, is perhaps the worst book I have ever read. My copy is a third edition but I am frankly surprised it was published at all. It reads like a first draft and doesn’t appear to ever have been edited, or even spell-checked. The writing is extremely crude: sentence fragments abound, tenses [...]