In which Kaz goes cruising for a bruising I was talking to my friend Parvathy recently. I was in a particularly good mood as I had tried on a pair of trousers I’d bought a couple of years ago and the darned thing — that had fitted quite well — slipped...

Thanks to Victoria Strauss Now that I’ve had another day to think on the RWA / Harlequin Horizons thing, I have a chance to be more sceptical … about RWA. You see, RWA has been playing it one way (sloooooow, prevaricating, mealy-mouthed) for so long,...

Are we there yet? I think it was Maria who pointed out that you appear on search results based, mostly, on your blog headlines. And it occurs to me that I’ve been a bit, ah, obtuse in my headings. So, in order to get more hits to my poor little blog —...

Oh good grief, will the world not stop sending incendiary missiles of bogus thinking my way? To whit, an article in the Brisbane Times, entitled “Money can buy you love, economist says“. Dr Paul Fritjers has figured out what different events mean to...

Guest post by Mr KS Augustin, in which another reader in the house puts forth his take on the novel in question. This mysterious ingredient (the frozen leg of mutton in the title*) appears in quite a few examples of the “How not to write a novel”...