Guilty Pleasures? Nope
We’ve been watching Pretend it’s a City with Fran Lebowitz. On Netflix. She mentioned something in last night’s episode that I probably would have brought …
Reading
mostly just reading-related stuff
Delayed gratification…worth it!
Yesterday I was reading a book and it was nearly time to close it and get going with other things. I was approaching the climax …
The Stephen King Experience
Way back in October, probably in response to my Chats With Cool Folk #3 with Danette and James https://totallyfantastictitle.podbean.com/e/ep-21-chats-with-cool-folk-3-danette-boucher-and-james-douglas/, I ordered Stephen King’s On Writing …
I did it!
I began my podcast! It is called Totally Fantastic Title, and you can find it on Podbean https://totallyfantastictitle.podbean.com, as well as many other favourite podcast hosting …
Norwescon 40 is over!
I didn’t make it to Norwescon last year, so it was a treat to attend for its 40th anniversary. I really enjoyed the panel on …
Creative Ink Fest 2017
What a fabulous weekend! I attended so many terrific panels (Writing Fight Scenes, Real Life Superwomen), and was on a few that also went really …
Audiobook Narration
Thanks to new friend Brian Rathbone (http://www.brianrathbone.com) I am beginning to record my first audiobook. Brian came to a reading I gave at Miscon in …
Elitist Art
I’m listening to CBC Radio One, as usual. Q just ended, wherein Jian Ghomeshi was speaking to a producer of a documentary about a couple …
“Don’t judge a book by its movie”
So says the marquee in front of a bookstore on the Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge. And it’s true, so true. I watched a bunch of …
Favourite books and favourite moments
One more thing… This evening I finished reading A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, out loud to my daughter. MAN, I love that book. …