I spent a good couple of hours this afternoon building the next couple of lectures for my Tolkien class. It’s been interesting. Partly because it’s Tolkien, of course, but also because I’m doing the slides using Google Presentations instead of PowerPoint. I’d frankly grown tired of being forced to remember …
I had no pressing work to do yesterday, so at long last I had the opportunity to read over my completed draft of Shards of Heaven. I wanted to give it another once-over before making a big agent push this year. I meant to do it months ago, but I’ve …
I have a great family. As a for instance, my brother, bless his heart, gave me a gift for Hanukwanzmastide this year, despite the fact that we’d agreed not to give each other anything. And it wasn’t even to make me feel guilty. No, what he gave me was a …
Among the interesting things to happen this past week: I received a request from Children’s Literature Review to reprint an article that I published last year in the academic journal Mythlore. CLR is an annual “Best of Criticism” collection, so it’s a pretty nifty honor. Even better, it pays. I …
Like a great many young toddlers these days, Young Master likes trains. Likes ’em a lot. It’s that Thomas bloke, of course. All blue and happy and pip-pip, cheerio, chap! He’s like a cheeky little drug for the little ones. I personally think it’s those dastardly Brits getting back at …
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