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NIGHT OF THE PONTIANAK! #uf #ebook #kindle
It’s three releases across three weeks, but I promise not to make a habit of it! Welcome, stalwart reader. Today I’m telling you about the release of NIGHT OF THE PONTIANAK, the fourth book in the...
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On the always-connected and hiring said person #wouldntdoit
I keep reading that one must be consistent with what one blogs about. If one is consistent, then the reader is appropriately lulled into a certain expectation bracket, resulting in fewer blog posts...
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Nothing of import to report
There are several topics I could cover but the truth is, I’m too busy writing at the moment and I don’t want to break it. Heaven knows, the schedule gets broken up enough as it is with home-schooling,...
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On #love, #holidays and #writing
The family have just come down off a four-day weekend; namely, Chinese New Year. Although predominantly a Malay country, it’s obvious that the Chinese are, as is commonly believed, the engine of the...
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#Pope-watching, #finance and #politics
So Pope Benedict XVI (hereafter known as B-16) has decided to retire. To be honest, I never thought he had it in him. A close friend of JP-2 (Pope John Paul II), B-16 always gave the impression that he...
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An interesting email #carinapress
An interesting email landed in my Inbox earlier this week and, as it was addressed to me, I think I’m safe to use my own discretion and share it with you. The email had to do with pricing changes. I am...
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#Authors tagging Authors Blog Hop – Q&A #writing
As you can gather from the title, stalwart reader, this is a blog hop. Kinda. I was tagged by Canadian author, Gordon Long, who runs Airborn Press. While he calls himself a “Renaissance Writer”, I...
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A #Harlequin update #carinapress
I almost didn’t write this short update because it sounds an awful lot like crowing but, then again, business and economic analysts do it all the time, so why not? In the post about Carina Press that I...
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Human dynamics and automation #isallprogressgood #malaysia #singapore
[I'm on an Ancient Roman kick at the moment, so Happy Ides of March!] Malaysians and Singaporeans are bad drivers. Oh boy, are they bad drivers. It’s like they found their licenses in packets of nasi...
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Surveillance software and your government #privacy
This week’s blog post is divided into two parts: one, the article itself, and two, the slant of the article. Firstly, let’s talk about “Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software“, a...
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State of the mind #notwriting
Renovation work going on STOP Very noisy STOP Can’t hear myself think STOP Concentration shot STOP Send whisky OVER AND OUT
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#Pet truths, part 1 #malaysia #dogs
Here is a cautionary tale about animals and Asia. Because of what happened to our family, I’m setting down our experiences in the hope that someone else may benefit from them. Almost four years ago,...
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#Pet truths, part 2 #malaysia #dogs
Click for Part 1 of our Tale of Woe regarding the dogs. We loved Cookie (we still love Cookie and I wave to her when I see her even if I can’t actually touch her) and liked having two dogs in the...
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#Pet truths, part 3 #malaysia #dogs
[Apologies for the delay in posting, but a whole heap of work dropped on my desk yesterday.] In Part 1, I told you the background of our dogging adventures and why we can’t trust breeders. In Part 2,...
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On #writing, planning and motivation
It’s taken almost two years of my life, but the final part of the Check Your Luck urban fantasy is done, dusted and at various etailers! Whew. Over at the Sandal Press blog, I said that it came to...
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I got nuttin’
There are two big projects consuming me at the moment: digitally typesetting the entire Check Your Luck series and (once more) editing what I like to call my “future historical”. What with the...
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Future historical due in June! #sfr
Recently, I was having an interesting exchange regarding SF, SFR and space opera, and I pointed out that the one big genre love in my life is space opera. Earlier, when J (in a separate conversation)...
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Watching the #birds #malaysia
[All images via Wikipedia, because I'm too busy gawping and they are too fast for me to take photos.] We are very lucky with where we live in Malaysia. Our estate is not even a quarter full of houses,...
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Art imitating Life #malaysia
When I was writing the Check Your Luck series, I knew I would be throwing in many unfamiliar terms. To get around this, I start compiling a glossary of terms that, I thought, would trip up foreign...
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#SFR #cooties and who gives a fuck? #sf
I got an email recently from a very good friend who asked me to pass along news of gentleman writer Stuart Sharp’s blog post about SF romance. And I thought about it, and I came to the conclusion:...
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