Oh no! I’ve finished Revin’s Heart by @stevendbrewer! Whatever shall I do?
Tag: books
2024-05-20 11:32
Time to sit on the patio with Revin’s Heart (by @stevendbrewer), a beer, and Ashley.
2024-05-13 13:24
I got my signed hardback copy of Revin’s Heart by Steven D. Brewer!!
“… my steampunky fantasy adventure with pirates and airships and a trans protagonist.”
says Steven
2023-08-31 04:57
This makes me really want to read Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger:
there is a tradition on the radical left when it comes to mistrusting the system, and a tradition on the radical right for seizing on that mistrust when they can.
Source: NYT
2023-08-25 11:31
My copy of the new translation of Meyer’s 1570 sword-fighting treatise has arrived!
2023-03-20 14:12
I came home to find my contributor’s copies of my new story A Classic Beginner’s Mistake, along with a few extra for signing! You can order a signed copy (or the ebook, or an unsigned trade paperback) at that link.
2023-01-25 12:12
In his post on Water Dragon Publishing‘s Dragon Gems program, Steven very kindly links to an old post I wrote that suggested borrowing for ebooks a publishing model from pulps (which had borrowed from the dime novel).
Library feature I want
I wish libraries would take a page from the old DVD-based Netflix, and make it possible to put hold requests on a queue.
I’d really like to be able to tell the library that I only want one 3 (or 6, or 9) books at a time, and have it pull those books in roughly the order I have them in my queue, skipping over books that aren’t available. (Of course leaving them on the queue until they are.)
I say “roughly,” because if a book is part of a series, I want to read them in order. So, if the next book isn’t available, don’t just go on to the following book. Instead, skip ahead in my queue to the next non-series book that’s available.
When I find a bunch of interesting books, and put holds on them all at the library, they tend to all show up all at once. Then I have a big stack of books at home, most of which I’m not reading. That seems like a waste. Plus, then I have to return them all at once, often before I’ve finished with the last ones.
Obviously I could handle this by making a list of books I’m interested in, and then putting them on hold 3 (or 6, or 9) at a time. But that’s not only more work for me (which could easily be handled by the library’s computer), but there’s also no way to account for some of the books being already checked out.
Libraries should just handle this for me.
2022-03-04 11:35
Jackie and I went to Barnes & Noble for the first time since the start of the pandemic. I bought a copy of each of the science fiction and fantasy magazines they carry, with an eye toward re-subscribing to any that seem good.
2022-01-20 09:10
The new book How to Distill: A Complete Guide from Still Design and Fermentation through Distilling and Aging Spirits may be of particular interest to the fans of my old @wisebread article How to Make Moonshine.