2009 already? Who’d have believed it just a few short years ago? Happy New Year to all readers of The Word. I hope 2009 brings you health, happiness and success in all that you do. .
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Click on book covers for reviews and previews.
RealmShift
"an inventive and action-packed story"
"a gripping, thought-provoking tale"
"a novel I am loath to put down. A most surprising read. Quite a ride"
"fast-paced and engrossing"
"RealmShift is phenomenal. If it’s not already on your bookshelf it should be."
MageSign
"a fast-paced ride through a visceral reality"
"a fast paced supernatural adventure that will leave readers rethinking how they view the Cosmos"
"a gritty tale of blood rituals, mystery, and mysticism… grabs hold of the reader and doesn’t let go"
"fantastic qualities … horrific at times... I highly recommend it"
"Alan Baxter takes the reader right to the edge and then pushes us over. And I thank him for it."
Ghost Of The Black
"Excellent pacing"
"I’ve found myself not wanting to stop reading"
"Everything about it is bang on"
"very, very readable."
2009 already? Who’d have believed it just a few short years ago? Happy New Year to all readers of The Word. I hope 2009 brings you health, happiness and success in all that you do. .
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Michael over at aNadder posted about some very curious keywords that people had used in 2008 that had subsequently led them to his blog. He did do a series of posts about sexual ethics so you might expect some weird searches to lead to him. Still, he suggested that anyone else consider themselves tagged...
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Truth is so often stranger than fiction. In America the number of people dressing up in spandex and rubber and going out into the streets as real life superheroes is fast growing. In an article in the Times Online we learn that “There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than...
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Following on from yesterday’s post about 1ChapterFree.com, I thought I’d keep the blog busy this month with some stuff about other good reading and writing websites. 1ChapterFree is a good place to have a read of the first chapter of books you might think about buying or to post the first chapter of your...
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“Don’t judge the book by its cover. Read a chapter instead.” So goes the tagline for the website of 1ChapterFree.com. It’s a pretty cool idea. The basic premise is that you might search around your local bookstore, find a book you like the look of, read the blurb, look at the cover and maybe...
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Yeah, this is Christmas at my house: I wish that was Christmas everywhere. Then again, if that really applied all those people would be related, which is a bit disconcerting. That’s a depiction of Saturnalia, one of the concepts hijacked by the Christians. Then there’s Yule, the original Pagan celebration of the sun god...
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I know that anything I write is already art and pretty hard to improve on, but I found this interesting nonetheless. I picked up a couple of clever little webby toys over at the Blurred Lines blog, and this one is my favourite. It takes any body of text (including an RSS feed) and...
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Regular readers here will know that I’m a big fan of church signs. One of those regular readers, my dear sister-in-law Bogna, pointed me to this link on the website of the UK’s Guardian newspaper. It seems that on a road trip from Florida to Alaska, husband and wife Steve and Pam Paulson were...
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From S F Signal and S F Scope. The Australian Aurealis Awards nominees for 2008 have been announced. BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: * Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K.A. Bedford (published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) * Chaos Space (Book Two of The Sentients of Orion) by Marianne de Pierres (Orbit) *...
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I have a bad feeling about this one. It started on Facebook, but I picked it up from Greg Laden’s blog via John Wilkin’s blog. It’s a list of 219 movies. If you’ve seen more than 85 of them you have no life, according to… well, who exactly? I would like to make a...
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Words and stories fascinate me. Our world is built on language and storytelling. Without stories, we are nothing.
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