Tag: Assam & Darjeeling

Echoes of Ovid

May 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm

In this latest post, we get an extensive update from the world of podcasting, speechifying, and free books . . . so try to stay awake until the end.

Tea with Winterly

December 21, 2010 at 8:55 am

Winter is my favorite time of year. There’s nothing better than to curl up with a cup of tea and a good book while the snow falls outside.

Today’s the Winter Solstice, we’ve still a long way to go before spring.

To mark the occasion, I’m giving away a copy of Assam & Darjeeling to the first ten people who post a comment here.

Enjoy…

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

December 19, 2010 at 3:15 am

It’s been a busy time. Here are a few of the reasons why . . . also, we get some very nice fan mail, write some new stories, and drop meaningful hints about some kind of special event coming next week.

Reporting from the Robot Wars

November 23, 2010 at 3:33 pm

It started quiet, this little holiday promotion of ours. The cold silence of Thanksgiving and Black Friday spread into the weekend, leaving all of us huddle down in the trenches and despondently reread the letters and coupon circulars sent from the home front. Fortunately, there was a surge late in […]

Selene and a Smattering of Olympians Cavorting

September 10, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Put on your grass skirt and coconut brassiere, it’s time for another Link Luau — with the latest news on book reviews, book clubs, podcasting popularity, blue-eyed babies, and the madness of Englishmen…

Pride of Lions

July 20, 2010 at 9:04 am

“Storms are, by nature, and among other things, scary, awesome, chaotic, terrible and beautiful all at the same time. My personal theory is that you cannot look at a storm brewing and not feel anything stirring in your gut. Likewise, in going through an art gallery, the masterpieces that have […]

Occasional Wasp & Other Thoughts

June 10, 2010 at 10:58 am

In which many, many important things are mentioned — including the obligatory Flash mention, a subliminal Dude reference, and new work coming in August.

“As Those Fabulous Dragons Teeth…”

May 20, 2010 at 4:55 pm

“The enemy of most authors is not piracy but obscurity.” — Dave Charest About a year ago, I experienced what some might describe as a moment of clarity, one of those points where your perspective changes and you find yourself unable to go back to the way it was before. […]

And now, a little bit of powerdorkery…

May 7, 2010 at 12:17 pm

Longtime readers of this blog — and anyone who had to sit through a meeting with me in the late Nineties and early Aughts — might remember my enthusiasm for a little Apple device called the Newton. I won’t go into it’s history here, but I absolutely loved the Newton. […]

The First. The Tenth. The Third.

April 27, 2010 at 11:46 am

A few months back, my wife had to switch doctors. She’d been with the same physician for years, so losing them halfway through her first pregnancy was a little bit of a disappointment. But it wasn’t the end of the world. The new doctor was a very experienced, businesslike woman […]