Alan Gandy is walking the length of all seven Canary Islands for charity, and he’s currently on La Palma. Yesterday he walked from Santa Cruz to Fuencaliente, and today he’s walking from Barlovento to Santa Cruz (the photo is of Alan leaving Barlovento). All procedes to two charities, Niños del Tercer Mundo – a charity based on the island which funds projects in the third world, and the Rose Road…
Well, now I have my own publishing house, Dragon Tree Publishing. Of course that sounds ridiculously grand. I had a fun conversation with my son where I said that calling Dragon Tree Publishing my own publishing house sounded ridiculously grand. He suggested “publishing hut” and I suggested “publishing bedsit”. We went through “publishing cave” and “publishing tent” before settling on “publishing shoe-box”. And as any Monty Python fan will tell…
El Alisio, the cultural magazine for La Palma has an article about my book here and Hank Quense has one here. Meanwhile Janice Clark gave my book five stars on Amazon.“This collection has something for everyone and a story to fit every mood, from the poignant tale of the last dragon (The Dodo Dragon) to the zaniness of Jose’s AI appliances (The Appliance of Science), who plunk him down in the…
I’ve uploaded the files for “The Dodo Dragon and Other Stories” to Amazon. the book is now “in review” and should be on sale tomorrow. I hope. Of course I’ll be shouting from the rooftops as soon as that happens. So here’s a fun video to celebrate.
My SF anthology, “The Dodo Dragon and other stories” will be on sale as an eBook from Monday 23rd April – Shakespeare’s birthday. Nine quirky stories to entertain you from an off-beat imagination. “If you like tongue in cheek retro sci-fi, often filled with bad puns, much in the vein of those 50s & 60s anthologies, with a twist of Ellison, Sheckley or Silverberg, then you’ll find stuff in here you’ll like…had me…
My friend’s baby only had two hats,one of which was far too big for him. So I got my knitting needles out and made him another. I thought it was a nice, little hat. His mum thought it was a nice little hat. But as you can see, Baby wasn’t impressed. Or maybe he was just tired. Because soon afterwards he fell fast asleep.