A new faculty member faces his demons
Spring break in hell
Can demons and vacation mix?
All four novellas from the Royal Academy
Novella. Enchantment and lechery. Reprinted in Year's Besr Fantasy 2003
Novella. Dryads, green slavery, and a reluctant god
Novella. Only the cats knew what she did to her major professor
Novella. Holidays and dragonsContact: pat.bowne@gmail.com
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Fantasy for faculty: THE ROYAL ACADEMY NOVELS and NOVELLAS follow life in and around the Demonology Department of a modern university. Fiction for those of us who know there are demons in the basement.
"I was delighted to come across this wry, inventive fantasy... Anyone who's spent time at a university will recognize the place...
I'd recommend this to anyone who appreciates academic life, spells, counter-spells, supernatural battles, and the charms of discourse."
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The Babbling Internet
I get a few hundred links a week in my RSS aggregator, and guess which ones I get the least out of? The ones that send me to a page with a two-line teaser and embedded video of a talking … Continue reading
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Unneeded Fantasy
Abigail Nussbaum’s most recent review over at Strange Horizons asks an interesting question — why use fantasy to tell a story? It’s a question I’ve been asking about several of the novels I’ve read lately. Fairies have been enjoying a … Continue reading
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Dystopian visions — are you doing anything?
When I was young, there was a commercial my parents loved. It was for some allergy medicine or other, and it showed a bored little boy sitting on the porch steps. From inside the house came his mother’s voice: “Johnny, … Continue reading
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Corrected knitting chart 5
The summer knit-along folks pointed out a problem with my chart. Great catch! Here’s the corrected version: TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
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Cat’s Evening Song
Oh, oh, if you don’t let me out I will die. Oh, oh, if you don’t let me out I will die. I will moan, I will cry, I will sob, I will sigh, I will fall down and perish … Continue reading
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A New Favorite — A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
I was already looking forward to this book before it was published. Sofia was one of the first people to review my first book, when I met her I really enjoyed our conversation, and I always learn something interesting from … Continue reading
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How not to court donors
I give to a charity, so today I was called by a pollster who appeared to have been commissioned by them. The best I could figure from the multitude of questions he asked me was that the organization is having … Continue reading
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I’m back – with more knitting charts.
For those of you doing the lace knitting project, you must be more than caught up by now! It’s been almost three weeks – so I’ll post the next 3 charts. Sorry for the delay. I was out having fun … Continue reading
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More knitting — chart 5
No sooner did I get chart 3-4 up than one of my knitting group told me it was really short! Maybe this will make people feel better. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
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Lace! Knitting! Summer break! Chart 3-4
These are little motifs so I put both in one chart. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
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