Still going through my obsession with the houses of John Lautner. This one is the Arango residence in Acapulco, Mexico, built for a supermarket tycoon. Lautner had a moment of opulent genius with this one: the upper level doesn’t have a safety wall or rail but a goddamn swimming pool moat!!! It’s just as hard […]
Read more "The Arango Building"So The Real Writing Process podcast suggested I compile a Pennyblade playlist. A neat idea! Two kinds of music on this one. The albums on the list are what I’d listen to as I ground through the writing of Pennyblade while the standalone tunes on the list are what I listened to just before writing […]
Read more "The Pennyblade Musical Playlist"The place I most want to live right now is the Garcia House, Hollywood, also known as the Rainbow House. It’s unusual shape is due to owner Russell Garcia wanting great acoustics: a tv theme composer and jazz band leader, he liked to do gigs at his house parties. The house has a divide at […]
Read more "Things I Like: The Garcia House"The launch of Pennyblade went very well, thanks for asking. Nice turn out and all the wine drunk. Here’s a clip of me reading… Excerpt from the fabulous Pennyblade by @JLWORRAD at it’s @TitanBooks launch @reclamation2022 I’ve left you gagging for more… you are going to have to go buy the book and get your […]
Read more "Pennyblade Eastercon Launch"Come one come all (bearing in mind you’ll have to be in the UK and have a membership for Eastercon ). See you next weekend!
Read more "Eastercon Book Launch Party for Pennyblade! Woo-hoo!"Follow this link to Facebook. A read a few pages. You might like it!
Read more "A Pennyblade Reading!"Here’s a link to a post I wrote for Risingshadow.net in which I look at vulgarity, cursing and general lewdness in the fantasy genre. It’s an issue of interest to me given how Pennyblade has been received. It was also a lot of fun to write.
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"…I get to talk about Pennyblade and the fantasy elf trope. I had a lot of fun writing this post and John was very kind to let me blather on his wonderful site.
Read more "Meanwhile, Over At John Scalzi’s Whatever Blog…"
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