Until my recent reading of Stephen King’s On Writing, I had never read any of his books. I bought one or two for a dime here or a quarter there at thrift shops, but they remain as the few unread books on my shelf. I found On Writing at a Salvation Army store. I wouldn’t [...]

In 1973, The Gods Themselves seemed poised to become a
perennial classic and a major piece of the science fiction canon.
Written by Isaac Asimov, an already acknowledged master of the genre,
it won the two highest awards bestowed upon books of its kind: the Hugo
and the Nebula. In recent years, however, other novels of its era have
overshadowed [...]

Tiffany Aching is having trouble. As a trainee witch she’s been
assigned to Miss Treason, a terrifying old woman who uses the eyes of
whatever is nearby to see (Including Tiffany’s own), a boyfriend being
held hostage by his evil relatives and just to make matters worse, the
spirit of Winter has fallen in love with her. Tiffany Aching [...]

I finally have the new platform up and running. Pretty, no? The old site was a mix of pages done by hand, using SSI for repeating elements, plus some cobbled together scripts for RSS-to-HTML displays on the front page, and wordpress blogs. This new site is entirely integrated, and has some fancy features both on [...]