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Music, Missing

It’s a sad, sad day.
“WKRP In Cinncinnati” is finally being released on DVD… season 1 is available now. But the episodes will be mere shadows of their formerly great selves, for reasons us long-time fans already knew: most of the music is gone.
This is one series where the rock music was integral to the scenes, [...]

After the Book Festival

Even though this year’s book festival seemed to be less crowded this year than last year, I personally had more fun this time.
The Dragon Page/Slice of SciFi part of the signing didn’t go off quite so well, unfortunately. Between Mike, Mur, Evo and myself, I don’t think we signed a single copy. The [...]

Publishing Adventures

New fantasy rock-star author Patrick Rothfuss has an amazing first novel, The Name of the Wind, and a shiny new website and blog.
In one of his recent posts, he says that agents are navigators, and for some reason my brain immediately conjured up images of grizzled veteran wilderness guides, armed with only experience and laptops, [...]