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The Last Days of Earth … the bell tolls

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Hatboy

Well, it’s been a while since my last update, hasn’t it? Sorry about that. I suppose the four or five main folks who read and comment on the blog have been in constant contact with me anyway, so you know … Continue reading →

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The Last Alicorn: Live!

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Hatboy

It’s here! And in e-book format, here! That is all. It’s been a long night and a long year. And I still have a Christmas Special to write, and apparently a film critique connecting Zardoz and Jingle All The Way into the … Continue reading →

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Tales of the Always Night, a teaser

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Hatboy

I finished editing today, and I have seven illustrations left to draw before I’m ready to go to print with the proof copies. Hopefully it’ll be a fun read. More news as comes to light, and as I promised I … Continue reading →

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Greyblade: Ready

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Hatboy

So Greyblade finally came in at 715 pages, 205,282 words. Quite the monster. The paperback is available on Amazon here. The e-book is available here. My hiatus continues, but here is my usual metrics graph for the three parts of … Continue reading →

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Arcanum Unbounded: A Review

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 37. 96 pages, 43,253 words. A few days back I finished reading Arcanum Unbounded, Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere short story / novella anthology. Since I have recently published a little anthology of my own with a similar (but smaller-scale … … Continue reading →

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1800 posts, 1000 tweets, and signing off for the summer

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Hatboy

As promised, I’m going to take a bit of a break for the next four weeks. I’ll blog up anything that strikes me as super important or inspiring (can’t promise my work on incels, Batman, or Boonie the weasel’s back-story … Continue reading →

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Musings on the ambitious flop that was “Bad Cow”

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Hatboy

Yesterday I posted a self-deprecating / self-pitying image macro acknowledging that Bad Cow, which I’d enthusiastically considered the most important and mind-blowing piece of literature to grace my bibliography, didn’t really hit that mark. I intended it as a direct … Continue reading →

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The BFG / IKJ (a review)

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 73. 123,730 words. (Reviewer’s note: I am not adding images to this review, and probably won’t bother in future. Google image search has gimpversioned itself to death and basically made it a huge pain in the arse to find images … Continue reading →

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What I Did On My Holidays, 2017-2018, Day 16

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 61. 113,643 words. Weekend flatline begins now. We went to my aunt and uncle’s place on our 16th day of summer holidays. This was enjoyable, because – well for a start they’re good people. And they also had a … Continue reading →

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Interlude: Hugos 2018: Once More Unto the Breach

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Hatboy

Day 45. 97,293 words. I was delighted to see that some of my contributions had made it into the final farewell newsletter from the Helsinki Worldcon people. Here, for anyone who missed out on the newsletter, is my reminiscence-story. Well … Continue reading →

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