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Wave Without A Shore
It’s a work in progress but everything should work now
Fixing the fence a bit too late…
We lost our favorite and prettiest koi---the smallest---to a predator. I found a track I'm pretty sure was a raccoon in the mud from the drain near a break in the gate. We're so upset. She was gorgeous, and ate from your hand. And the butterfly-fins are just a little...
More English fun: Who/whose/whom: how to, and the sensible way to tell.
All the following statements are grammatically correct. And these examples are very, very frequently handled incorrectly in print these days. You may have to read this several times: there is no simple way to explain everything at once, for those that have forgotten...
1100 members, people! Congratulations to us all!
We gain a little every day. I've kicked off 424 spammers, and we still have 1100 honest readers who are very welcome here! For those of you new to the site---there are 4 interconnected sites: this one, and Closed Circle, which is where we sell e-books and everything...
A new 'book' question for you: the premise of The Princess Bride…
...is that most everybody has a book they read that just haunts them: they can't remember the title, or they can't remember the author, or it's a book that appeared and vanished, and you really liked it, but nothing else by that author ever appeared. Maybe the...
A new ‘book’ question for you: the premise of The Princess Bride…
...is that most everybody has a book they read that just haunts them: they can't remember the title, or they can't remember the author, or it's a book that appeared and vanished, and you really liked it, but nothing else by that author ever appeared. Maybe the...
We're losing another giant…
Article: thedailypage.com Harlan Ellison says he's dying. Damn. I don't know him as a close friend, but he's somebody I can call and know I'm going to talk to a sensible, can-do sort of acquaintance, on whatever it might be. Brilliant man, wonderful writer. I learned...
We’re losing another giant…
Article: thedailypage.com Harlan Ellison says he's dying. Damn. I don't know him as a close friend, but he's somebody I can call and know I'm going to talk to a sensible, can-do sort of acquaintance, on whatever it might be. Brilliant man, wonderful writer. I learned...
How many of these writers do you have on your shelves?
We're talking about books disappearing: books originally printed only in paperback---and books that are no longer in issue. I'm going to be listing, among others, people I knew personally, and series I'd expect an sf fan to have read, or looked at, or have some...
Closed Circle now has a Facebook site.
Update on the Facebook site: the Three Of Us of Closed Circle would be very grateful if all of you who do have Facebook accounts would make a brief sortie up to Facebook, do a search for Closed Circle (you’ll know the logo)—which is at the moment waaaay down the list...
I wonder if you all would do us a favor…
One of the best ways to get readers informed about Closed Circle is forums of all sorts. I know that many restrict the sigs you can use. But if you happen to be a member of forums that don't bar it, and especially in those that are appropriate or sf-fantasy oriented,...
Release schedule [sort of] for two Closed Circle items…
Jane is working toward the Halloween release of her vampire book---which is NOT Twilight, in any way, shape, or form. You know Jane. This is HER take on the mythos. I'm doing my own spooky release: Rusalka's nearly ready. I've got the text in shape and I'm now working...
Ah, 52-card-pickup in office software…or…I hate Word, but I have to use it…
It seems that the interface between Volkwriter, my old software, and Word Perfect, is not so great if you have the # symbol in the text---it erases paragraphs, in WP. And guess what I'd used in VW for a spacer. FORTUNATELY, MS Word turns out not to do that. So I'm...
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