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|This was taken by my nephew outside their office.
|My nephew watching the flood outside their office.
There is this little princess in me that appreciate life and whatever it offers. No need to search and download happiness. It has been installed. Just activate it. I created my personal blog to share my thoughts with my friends and online readers. Blogging enables me to express my feelings in writing and taught me to be creative as well. ♥
|This was taken by my nephew outside their office.
|My nephew watching the flood outside their office.
Hi JP
Just stay safe thats all that matters. The weather and floods look far too similar to those in Jakarta, probably caused by the same problems, too much building and too little consideration about drainage and of course existing drains and gutters either full of rubbish or broken. But if you could send some of the rain to Jakarta it would be more than appreciated as my plants are starting to wilt.
Take care and stay dry
Hey Princess,hope you are doing well,my goodness you take good care of yourself ok.Well it's been days i have talked to my online buddies anyways,how's you??
JP, I am so darn glad that you and your family are safe!
Hugs to you my friend.
I hope and pray this won't happen again in most disturbing way.Glad your safe Ms.Jolly.
Take care always and hope you could update to tweet so I can update about what's happening to your life. My best regards and God bless you and your family.
@Luke Regler- Thank Luke, yes I am safe and being just careful to stay safe. @ravali- I am good, thanks for the blog visit.
@Jean- Ok, let go of me now so I can type. (lol) Thanks Jean. @audrinajulia - Most of Manila residents got scared of typhoon Helen right after the monsoon rain flooding. I am glad the typhoon is already gone. I am just too busy at home when not at work. I seldom visit my Twitter account.
I hope the Monsoon rain is over now. It's been raining here in Norway almost all summer with lots of damage..
This is so sad. I've seen some videos online about the devastation of the Monsoon. Hope the victims recover soon.
@roffe - We are still on rainy season, but I do hope no much flooding anymore. @Vivian -Welcome to my blog. Yes, it was so sad. I do hope the victims will recover soon.


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I will be a guest author at ConDFW in Fort Worth, Texas this weekend of February 16th-18th, 2018. This is my seventh year as a guest panelist, and it is also notable for being the first literary fan convention that I attended as a patron back in February 2011 before my first short story was published later that Summer. I have a lot of fond memories of past years attending this convention. This is a much smaller, more relaxed event than say ComicCon, or DragonCon. It's always great to talk to my fellow author friends who I see only once a year, and meet new ones. I enjoy doing discussion panels, hearing others views on all kinds of topics. The readings and book signings are fun too. I'm fortunate that my wife Alison is also an author as well as being an artist , and enjoys attending the convention with me. We have had some good times there in years past. Below is my schedule for the convention. I hope to see you there.
Friday, 6pm: Echoes From Other Worlds: Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry
Panelists: Patricia Ferguson (M), Michelle Hartman, Stephen Sanders, Michelle Muenzler, Larry Atchley, Jr.
Poetry is an artform of the mind and can be channeled into any and every genre. Some of the greatest poems ever written are tales
of adventure and daring-do. Does anyone remember The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes? Or The Homecoming of Solomon Kane, by
Robert E, Howard. Come hear from poets who write regularly about living on Mars, Steampunk adventures, pirate raids, alternate
history, and ensorcelled swords. They'll talk about the various markets where they've found success and challenge you to write your
own fanciful poem in one of these genres.
Saturday, 1pm: Ekphrastic Poetry: What is it and will it hurt?
Panelists: Susan Maxwell Campbell (M), Stephen Sanders, S. Boyd Taylor, Michelle Muenzler, Larry Atchley Jr.
Ekphrastic (from the Greek for "speak out") poetry is poetry inspired or stimulated by a work of art, usually a painting or
sculpture. This form of poetry has been practiced since the time of Homer and still flourishes today – a well-known example is
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by William Carlos Williams. In the first half of the panel the panelists will discuss the genre and
answer questions about their own works. The convention will call upon several of the artists featured at this year's convention to
create original art to inspire poems. These pieces will be shown during the panel and, during the second half of the panel, attendees
will be able to ask the artists questions about their works. Attendees will then write original ekphrastic poems, based on the
artwork, and these will be featured at our late night open mic!
Saturday, 2pm: Martha Wells, Larry Atchley Jr., Bradley H. Sinor
Saturday, 4pm: E. Gaston Huckabay, Larry Atchley Jr.
Saturday, 5pm: Robert E. Howard: A Retrospective
Panelists: Ethan Nahté (M), Larry Atchley Jr., Adrian Simmons, Stephen Sanders
Many will know of Robert E. Howard's work through Conan the Barbarian or Solomon Kane. But he wrote in many other genres,
including Western and Poetry! Our Howard Scholars talk about his work in the Fantasy genre as well as others.
Saturday, 7pm: Celebrity Artemis – Session 1
Panelists: Stephen Sanders (M), Melanie Fletcher, David Doub, Larry Atchley Jr., Seth Skorkowsky, William Ledbetter
The popular co-operative bridge simulator returns again to ConDFW! Six panelists at a time take the Starship Artemis through the
void, insulting every alien species possible. Let's see what happens!
Sunday, 12pm: The Third Annual ConDFW Adventure Poetry Slam
Judges: Stephen Sanders (M), Michelle Muenzler, Larry Atchley, Jr.
No Entry Fee. First Prize: $50, Second Prize: Convention T-shirt, Third Prize: Blackbead Books Merchandise
All you must do is write an original adventure poem, any form, which you can recite in three minutes or less. Then, perform it in
front of our audience and judges. Our three judges will score each poem and the three highest scoring poets will win our
prizes! What more do you need to know?
Sunday, 2pm: The Elemental Steampunk: Gadgets and Gizmos
Panelists: Larry Atchley Jr. (M), Julie Barrett, Charlayne Elizabeth Denney, Gloria Oliver
Steampunk is famous for its airships and for its steam-powered gadgets. We've looked at airships in the past, so it's time to look at
the gadgets. Our steampunk experts go over typical widgets used in steampunk so you can recognize them at a distance.
Sunday, 3pm: Fantasy Engineering: Building Mordor
Panelists: Tex Thompson (M), Larry Atchley Jr., Teresa Patterson, Gloria Oliver
Ever wonder how Mordor was made? Or Minas Tirith? Pick your epic fantasy of choice, and there will always be towns, castles,
buildings with grandeur. Building those places takes engineering: planning rooms where events take place, escape tunnels and even
secret hiding places for when the forces of darkness overwhelm you. But how detailed do you need to get? Our authors debate this and other topics.
ConDFW Schedule This Weekend
I will be a guest author at ConDFW in Fort Worth, Texas this weekend of February 16th-18th, 2018. This is my seventh year as a guest panelist, and it is also notable for being the first literary fan convention that I attended as a patron back in February 2011 before my first short story was published later that Summer. I have a lot of fond memories of past years attending this convention. This is a much smaller, more relaxed event than say ComicCon, or DragonCon. It's always great to talk to my fellow author friends who I see only once a year, and meet new ones. I enjoy doing discussion panels, hearing others views on all kinds of topics. The readings and book signings are fun too. I'm fortunate that my wife Alison is also an author as well as being an artist , and enjoys attending the convention with me. We have had some good times there in years past. Below is my schedule for the convention. I hope to see you there.
Bring the Thunder/Writers Helping Writers
One thing I like about the business of writing is that authors don't really consider themselves in competition with each other for readers. We generally want all of us to be successful at our craft, especially the lesser known or even mid list selling authors in my opinion. I've even participated in discussion panels at literary fan conventions in which I've encouraged new and struggling writers to become published authors.
And when someone who I respect and admire as an author has something new released I do my best to help spread the word on their behalf. This June there are a couple of releases that I feel are noteworthy and that I wish will do very well.
First, below is the link to my friend Scott Oden's Thunderclap campaign to promote his latest novel A GATHERING of RAVENS, which is coming out later this month. Thunderclap is a way to magnify exponentially the number of people who will see your social media post by having at least a hundred people agree to broadcast a scheduled post on all of their social media sites. Scott is a very talented writer and I enjoy reading his stories and books. He' s also a really nice guy both online and in person. Here is the link to the Thunderclap site:
Also Scott is having a book release event on Facebook that you can participate in too. Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/245803252563649/?ti=as
Also just released in ebook and soon to be printed in trade paperback edition is the author's cut version of TEMPUS UNBOUND by Janet Morris & Chris Morris which has been out of print for years and is now available once again for a new generation of fantasy action readers. I've had a copy of the original book for years. The stories of Tempus, known as "The Riddler" who is Commander of The Sacred Band , are some of my all time favorites. Janet and Chris Morris are masterful crafters of tales and I am glad to see yet another Sacred Band book being released with new material added and in the form that the authors intended.
So I hope you will help support these worthy and talented authors, by buying their books or at least telling your friends about them.
Come hell or high water
It's been a long time since I posted in the blog. Life has been very busy. I really should post here more often though. I figured since I have a couple of new stories and a poem published I should take some time and talk about and promote them here.
The Book of Night: Poems of the Macabre, edited by Richard Groller, is a collection of poetry by new Poets and classic ones along with original artwork by contemporary artists. My poem "The Shadow People" is published within.
At the end of 2016 the horror anthology Dark Corners was published. It would turn out to be the last book published by Iron Clad Press, an imprint of Fantom Enterprises. The company was founded by my good friend John Manning with the concept of giving underrated and neophyte writers a venue for getting their stories in print alongside various veteran authors. With John's passing to that realm beyond the veil before the book was completed, the task of getting the book finished and published fell upon the shoulders of his widow, Deanna. After the book came out she decided that she could no longer run the publishing company in John's absence. I was sad to hear the news, but I understand why she made her decision. Running a publishing company is hard work, especially when trying to do it alongside another full time job. The book was released with memorials written by many of the contributing authors and stands as a lasting legacy to John and his vision. It features my Prologue story "The Librarian's Tale." Also my wife Ali has her first published story "Cliché" in this volume and she also created the front and back cover art. I am very proud of her. Below is the cover, although it is hard to see the artwork.
More recently released is the latest volume in the Heroes in Hell series, which features my story "Unholiest Grail" in which Buccaneer Henry Morgan, Erik the Red, Ragnar Loddbrok, and Anton LaVey search the seas of Hell looking for the Unholy Grail which legend says allows damned souls to partake of the forbidden pleasure of getting drunk. It was a fun story to write, and I barely got it finished in time to make it into the book. In fact it was quite a rough jumbled together story and Janet and Chris Morris whipped it into shape with their editing expertise so that it could be included. I am eternally grateful for their going out of their way to help me get it into Pirates in Hell. I want to also give a heartfelt thanks to my wife Ali for helping me with the creative process of writing the story, and for putting up with all my mental flailing about trying to get it finished. It would never have been possible without her support. I love writing for the HiH series that Janet Morris created back in the 1980s. I was a fan of the series back then and never would have imagined that I would be writing stories for it when it was rebooted in the 21st century. I am especially excited about this book because I will be able to promote it at the various shows in which I perform with The Seadog Slam pirate troup reciting pirate poetry and singing songs.
My next project is to collaborate with my wife to write a story for the upcoming anthology Sha'Daa Toys in the shared world series created by Michael H Hanson. I have published stories on my own in two previous volumes: Sha'Daa Pawns and Sha'Daa Facets. It is a really interesting series and it's always a pleasure to write in that world setting which takes place during the Summer Solstice of some indeterminate year when the fabric between our world and the other dimensions are torn open and evil beings try to destroy and/ or enslave humankind. In the story we are working on now, there is a music box with a white rabbit on it that belonged to Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, which the forces of evil are trying to get a hold of because it is a portal to Wonderland from where the malevolent entities are trying to escape.
I'm also going to start writing more on my book about Gorm the Goblin Killer. I originally was doing it as a series of short stories, of which the first one is finished. But I decided that it made more sense to go ahead and make it a novel. I'm also really wanting to get back to writing on my ShadowRogue Saga novel and finally finish it after all these years.
Ali and I are always coming up with ideas for children's picture books too which we will write together and she will illustrate. We just need to sit down and do it and figure out how to format the text with the artwork. Then will come the task of either trying to publish it ourselves or try to get it done through a publishing house.
All of these things take time that we never seem to have enough of. But we need to make the time.
Anyway, I guess that's about all for this post. I'm going to try to start posting every week, so stay tuned for more.
The Short Pale Writer in the Long Black Coat at LibertyCon
| "Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed."
– Leo Rosten
I'll be a guest author at LibertyCon again this year, June 27-29 in Chattanooga, TN. This is my fourth year as a guest and I love this fantasy/science fiction convention so much. As we have done every year, The Irredeemable Order of Hellions will be having a book launch party at 10:00 PM in the Con Suite for our latest volume in the Heroes in Hell Series, created by Janet Morris and published by Perseid Press. This year we bring you Poets in Hell.
Here is the link to my schedule of appearances at LibertyCon this year.
Or if you prefer to just read it here:
|Reading – Larry Atchley, Jr. and Tamara Lowery
|Opening Ceremonies
|Paranormal Activities Panel
|Autograph Session
|What's New in Horror and Dark Fantasy?
|What's New from Perseid Publishing
|Poets in Hell
|What's new from Iron Clad Press
|Perseid Press, Moondream Press and Iron Clad Press Book Launch Parties; IOH and Fictioneers Parties
|Autograph Session
I always have a great time at conventions, and LibertyCon is no exception. It was my very first convention that I attended as a guest author so it is very special to me. Thanks go out to Rich Groller for getting myself and a lot of our other Hellion authors on the guest list every year since 2011. There will be a few of us Hellions around at LibertyCon this year: David L. Burkhead, Jason Cordova, David Drake (from the original Heroes in Hell books published from 1986-1989 by Baen Books) Jack Finley, Rich Groller, Michael H. Hanson, John Manning, Beth Patterson, (who is also the musical performer guest this year), pdmac, and Michael Z.Williamson.
I hope to see you there. It will be a hella good time.
"I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today — which is like the dreams of ghosts!"
-ROBERT E. HOWARD, Kull: Exile of Atlantis
The Short Pale Writer at Texas Pirate Festival This Weekend
I will be performing as Captain Lars Shortshanks with my fellow crew mates in The Seadog Slam at the Texas Pirate Festival in Hillsboro this weekend. We will be doing our customary readings of original pirate poetry and singing pirate songs plus at the closing of the day Shipwreck Show we will be reciting dirty limericks, jokes, toasts, and performing filthy bawdy pirate songs. Audience participation is mandatory so come join us for some dirty pirate fun. The schedule for the weekend is as follows:
Saturday: 1:30, 4:00, 5:30 and Shipwreck Show at 6:30.
Sunday: 1:30, 3:00 4:30, and Shipwreck show at 5:30
Here's the complete schedule for all performers this year:
Come out and get yer pirate on! Be there or we'll keelhaul yer sorry arse! Arrgh!
Fun Stuff I've Been Doing So Far This Year
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."-Winston Churchill
Okay, I know I haven't been keeping up with posting the blog on a regular basis. Again. I am bad. I am incorrigible. I am a procrastinator by trade. For those of you who have stuck with following this blog even through its intermittent ramblings, I thank you. There is a lot to catch up on so this will be a lengthy discourse of what's been going on in my life over the past few months.
At the end of last year I started attending The Seadog Slam's bimonthly shows that took place at the Half Price Books Flagship Store in Dallas. Every first Wednesday there was a Steampunk show with songs performed , poetry read,and neat garb and gadgets displayed, as well as presentation son Steampunk culture and literature. I wrote a couple of Steampunk poems that I read, presented a brief biography of Jules Verne, and also read a review I wrote of Jessica McHugh's book, The Sky, the World. Every Third Wednesday of the month there was a pirate themed show performed by the crew members of The Seadog Slam, with an open mic session for the last half of the show. Performers dressed in their pirate garb for full effect and I broke out my pirate costume that I had put together a few years ago to wear to parties, pirate festivals and Renaissance faires. I had been writing a few pirate poems which I read at these sessions which were apparently well received, as I was asked earlier this year to join the Seadog Slam as as auxiliary crew member. This meant I would be on call to help them complete a roster of performers for various events in North Texas especially when regular members cannot attend. Words cannot express how happy I was to join this group of pirate poets. Recently they even decided to make me a regular crew member, which means I will have an opportunity to perform at all their shows and on CD's they record of poetry and songs. I purchased a copy of The Pirate Primer so I can brush up on my piratical lingo. I've been wanting to buy this book ever since I checked it out from the Bedford Public Library a few years ago. Now I had a good excuse for acquiring it. Like I needed a reason to buy a book about pirates. Ha ha! The Seadog Slam will be working on a CD of dirty limericks this Summer so I have to get cracking to write some original limericks to read for the recording.
In April The Seadog Slam were the MC's at an event called Down to the Depths: A Ghost Pirate Masquerade at the Wit's End club in Dallas' historic entertainment district, Deep Ellum. It was a show put on by The Shadow Society to raise funds for the Steampunk November 2014 event. Earlier that week I had broken one of my hard contact lenses and had been forced to wear my coke bottle glasses to see. Determined not to look like a dork at the show, I decided that once I got to the club I would put in my one left contact lens and wear my pirate eye patch over the other eye for piratical effect. That was all well and good, except I had not counted on it being so hard to read my poem with one eye. A lack of depth perspective really messes things up. I managed to pull off the reading somewhat, although it was certainly not my best performance to date. Nothing a bit of rum couldn't make better though. Ah, it's a pirate's life for me. Arrgh!
All the performers that night were wonderful, from the opening band, Irish Blind, the burlesque performers, and sword fighting by Cut, Thrust & Run. It was fun being an MC, and introducing the band Esoterik, whose music and performance I really enjoyed. Allison Eckfeldt's vocals and dancing were awesome, Brady Bledsoe on Guitar and keyboards was amazing, and Austin Hayes on keyboards was excellent. I got the band to autograph their CD I bought, and they were all very cool nice people to talk to. They are from Oklahoma City which is my birth city and where I still have a lot of aunts, uncles and cousins living in the area. I will have to catch some more of their shows in the future. I'm hoping they will be back here in Dallas soon, or that I can make it up to OK City.
Going back a little earlier in the year, in February I was a guest author at the ConDFW literary fan convention. This is my third year as a guest and I had a blast as always being on discussion panels, doing readings and book signings. I get to meet up with a lot of fellow authors who are friends at these events and generally have a great time. There are too many people to mention everyone here and I will inevitably forget someone, since my memory is like sieve. So my apologies if I don't name you, but I have to at least run down a short list of people I got to hang out with and or be on panels with: Dean Andersson, Ethan Nahte, Selina Rosen, William Ledbetter, Bev Hale, Michelle Muenzler, Nina Romberg, Lou Antonelli, Melanie Fletcher, Mel White, Angeline Hawkes, Christopher Fulbright, Amie Spengler, Rachael Acks. Special thanks to friends and fellow writers Alaura Sandler and Jenn Monty who took photos of me on several panels.
Promoting the anthologies I am published in and talking about writing and fiction fandom is always a pleasure. The after parties are always awesome as well and I get way too little sleep during these convention weekends. But it is all so worth it. I'm looking forward to next year already. I had someone snap a photo of me at my signing table with all the books In which I have stories published. And I'm proudly wearing both my Irredeemable Order of Hellions, and Fictioneers badges. On my right arm is my Bethodist patch marking me as an adherent of my friend Beth Patterson's personal spiritual movement of bouzouki babe worship and musical religiosity. More on Beth later in this post. It's harder to see in this photo but I'm also wearing my Darwin Prophet & the Chronus Mirror patch showing my support for yet another awesome group of musicians. Thanks to my daughter Alina for making the armbands and sewing the patches on for me.
Next up in my busy Spring schedule of fun stuff was the North Texas Irish Festival. I have been going to this event ever since around 1996. It has been going on for over thirty years now, and is the largest Celtic music festival in the South, and one of the largest in the USA. There are so many excellent bands and solo musicians that play this festival. Also it has huge vendor turnout and there are so many great hand crafted items for sale. Money was tight this year so I couldn't go crazy with the purchases, but I did pick up a CD from one of my favorite bands, Poor Man's Fortune, and a really cool pin/brooch with the skull & crossbones on it. I figured it would go well with my pirate garb.
It has been my pleasure to get to know the band members of Poor Man's Fortune, especially Beth Patterson who I met initially on facebook a couple of years ago through mutual friends. We got to meet in person last year at the Irish Festival and we swapped copies of my anthologies that I have stories in for a bunch of her music CD's. She had confessed that she was a musician with writer envy, and that she was working on writing a fiction story based on her experiences in the music business. I told her that I was a writer with musician envy and that I wanted to put a band together. We realized that we both appreciate good music, good books, and irreverent dark humor, so a solid friendship was inevitable. We got along so well in fact, I decided that she must be my long-lost evil twin sister that I never knew I had.
I introduced her on Facebook to some of my fellow Hellion authors and especially Janet Morris, and also some other editors with publishers that were looking for stories to put in anthologies. She just had a story published in a collection called Rise of the Goddess, and she will have a story in the next Heroes in Hell book, Poets in Hell which also will have my story "Poetic Injustice" in it. So she is now officially a Hellion author after earning her way into our illustrious ranks with what I'm sure will be a very good story that I am looking forward to reading. Earlier this year she also published her first book Mongrels & Misfits, which has an awesome short story and a whole bunch of her song lyrics in it. I got to be one of her beta readers for the story and she thanked me in the acknowledgements page of her book which was cool and very sweet of her to do.
She is an excellent musician and is turning out to be just as good of a writer as well. I like to refer to her as the hardest working musician in the business because it seems like she is always playing gigs, recording albums, and promoting herself 24/7/365. She performs in and around New Orleans Louisiana when she is not on tour in various other parts of the world, like Japan, and Canada. She will be performing her music at this year's LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN where we will both be guest authors as well. Check out her web page here at Bethpattersonmusic.com. She just released an excellent new solo album Fast Forward which you can purchase on her webpage. She has it available as a digital download and as a USB flash drive that is made into a rubber bracelet so you can wear her music. Here's a photo of Beth performing with Poor Man's Fortune which includes Larry Rone on vocals and wind instruments , Richard Kean on pipes, Wolf Loescher on drums and percussion, and Beth Patterson on vocals and bouzouki. They just released a new CD called Bayou Curious that has a blend of Cajun, Scottish, Breton, and French traditional music, and it is a joy to listen to. It is very lively and upbeat. You can buy it on the Poor Man's Fortune webpage.
Some other great bands I saw at NTIF this year included The Town Pants, from Canada, who closed out their set witha cover of Iron Maiden's Run to the Hills, which was totally unexpected. Also the band Beyond the Pale who I have seen perform several years at NTIF and other Celtic music festivals like the no longer active Celtic Heritage Festival which was held in my home town of Bedford. There was so much excellent music but these are the ones that stand out in my mind the most.
Okay so on to the next convention and this is a big one that I have been honored with being a guest at for the past three years. All-Con in Dallas. This event encompasses everything to do with fandom whether it is science fiction, fantasy, horror literature, film or television, anime, women's roller derby, burlesque entertainment, stand up comedy, sword fighting action shows, music, etc. You name it and there is probably a discussion panel or performance to do with it at All-Con. I got to be on some great panels with some awesome authors this year as always. First and foremost I must mention my friend Jenn Monty who helped me come up with topics for five of the panels that we were on this year. She also did meticulous research and printed out notes for us to use, including creating a writers' notebook for compiling story notes and information for our panel on how to organize all the stuff you use when writing a novel. She made several copies which were handed out to the audience. We had a really good turnout for that one. Jenn publishes a blog called Brewed Bohemian where she posts her flash fiction and poetry, along with the latest open submissions for story contests and anthologies. She posts reviews about beer on there too which is really cool. Jenn is a very talented writer, and I hope we will share credits in an anthology together someday. She recently asked me to be one of the judges in a Steampunk & Dieselpunk flash fiction contest called Dirty Goggles that she was holding along with some other authors. Go check out her blog to read the stories and find out who won. Plus check out all the other cool stuff there too.
I shared panels with some other awesome fellow authors and experts like Larry And Tina Amyett of the North Texas Dieselpunks, Steve and Melody Sanders of The Seadog Slam, Ethan Nahte, Mel White, Bart de Boisblanc, and Gloria Oliver. I also got to hang out with my good friend Darwin Prophet who was one of the musical guests this year. I got to see a whole bunch of other friends that I usually only see at cons or other special events. There are probably too many people to list and I will inevitably forget someone so I'll just leave it at that. You all know who you are.
On March 19th I put together a author reading event that took place at the Half Price Books Dallas Flagship store. How this came about was that the Seadog Slam crew were not going to be able to do their usual pirate themed show they presented the third Wednesday of every month. I was asked if I wanted to put on an event by myself. I leapt at the chance and I decided that rather than do a pirate show I wanted to do something different where authors of various genres could read their work to an audience. Thus was born The Eclectic Muse Literary Revue. I gathered together five local Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex authors which included myself, Darwin Prophet, Jenn Monty, Jessica Scott, William Ledbetter. Author C. Dean Andersson was supposed to read too but had to cancel due to having the Flu. We had a small but enthusiastic audience and the event went well. It was the first time that both Jessica and Jenn had ever read before an audience and they did awesome even though they admitted they were very nervous. They each read some poetry and flash fiction that was excellent. Check out Jessica's blog, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet where she posts a lot of her poetry and prose, and Jenn's blog at Brewed Bohemian. William read excerpts from a couple of science fiction short stories that were very gripping and intense. I read part of my Rogues in Hell story, "Ragnarok & Roll" and Darwin read a bunch of her "prosetry" that includes her day to day thoughts and musings, and closed the event beautifully by singing the British anthem "Jerusalem" which was written from a poem by William Blake. We all had a great time and I was glad to be able to bring some fellow authors together to showcase their talents. I'm hoping to do another one of these sometime in the future.
Something cool that I got to attend in April was the short film premier of Love is a Grave, by my friend Tim Stevens with Title Pending Productions and Tim Stevens Films. The premier party was called Into the Grave and was held at the dance club The Church in Dallas' historic Deep Ellum arts and music district by The Shadow Society. Darwin Prophet & the Chronus Mirror performed at the premier and Darwin actually co-wrote music for the film with Director/Filmmaker Tim Stevens. Another band that performed that night was Ending the Vicious Cycle fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist, Toby Rider. There was also a dark burlesque show which included Vivienne Vermuth and Cat de Lynn. The film was awesome and the party was a blast. I had a lot of fun dancing and hanging out with friends including Cindy House who I have known since high school and who I hadn't seen in a few years, and who is a regular at The Church.
Also in April I also got to be an extra in one of Tim's latest projects, a web series called You are Here, that was filmed at The Curtain Club in Deep Ellum in Dallas. That was a lot of fun, but it was hot hard work. I was in several scenes that involved dancing at a Goth vampire night club party. They couldn't run the Air Conditioning units because of the noise and it was very hot inside the club. It didn't help that I was wearing leather pants, boots, and my signature long black coat. My friend Darwin Prophet was also there as an extra to help support Tim's project. I also got to be in a few additional scenes that just involved standing and acting like I was talking to another extra, Shana, who I met at the filming. She was pretty cool and has some interesting life stories. She is about my size, (petite that is) and also takes martial arts so we had that in common to talk about. She is a professional model working in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I met a lot of other great people who were extras and part of the cast and crew. Special thanks to Tim Stevens, John McCullagh, Mary Rochford, Jessica Sheriff, and everyone else involved with the production for making me a part of the action and taking great care of us by providing lots of water to drink and pizza for dinner. The web series is supposed to air sometime in June, so I'll be sure to post a link to it in my blog when it does. I hope I look halfway decent in the shots.
In May I went to fellow author Seth Skorkowsky's book signing for his first published novel Damoren. It was held at game store Area 51 Gaming & Collectibles in Grapevine Texas, the town where I grew up. I met Seth at All-Con this year and it turns out that we have a lot of mutual friends in the writing and Steampunk community. I just finished reading his book and it is a thrilling action packed adventure with some very excellent writing and includes some very interesting concepts. It is book one of The Valducan series and I can't wait to read the next book when it comes out next year. I'm looking forward to finally finishing one of my novels so I can do one of these events for a book that is all my own work. I love writing short stories and poems for anthologies, but having my own novel completed and published would be a great feeling.
Well that is about it for now. The next big event things coming up for me will be attending Robert E Howard Days in Cross Plains Texas and attending LibertyCon as a guest author, both in June. This will be my first time to go to Howard Days. I have heard a lot of great things about it form fellow authors so I am looking forward to it. It is my fourth year as a guest at LibertyCon, which was the first con to book me as an author in 2011 after I had my first published short story appear in Lawyers in Hell.
I am working on my dark fantasy/sword & sorcery novel that I am aiming at finishing this year. Also the usual short stories and poems as always. I'll keep everyone posted here whenever I have my next stories and poems published. I have a few things coming out this Summer.
I'll leave you with a pithy quote as usual. Thanks again for following my blog and I'll try not to take so long between posts next time.
"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled."
-Dean Koontz
The Eclectic Muse Literary Review
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."
-John Updike
Except when they dare to band together in support. Myself and six other writers local to the DFW Metroplex are participating in an event that I put together since the rest of the Seadog Slam crew members couldn't attend what is usually the monthly pirate poetry and tales of the sea show. This event has no theme, since we will have authors reading from a wide variety of genres of poetry and prose. So I decided to call it The Eclectic Muse Literary Review. I wanted to have something to show some support a few of the local area authors and get some of their work know by a different audience than they normally would have. I wanted a mix of both well established authors and those who are up and coming writers. I think I have chosen well.
We will be at the Half Price Books Flagship store at 5803 E. Northwest Hwy, Dallas, Texas 75231 on Wednesday March 19th form 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Joining me are Darwin Prophet, Jenn Monty, Jessica Scott, William Ledbetter and C. Dean Anderson. Both Jenn and Jessica have never read their work to an audience at a formal event before so they are taking a big step in doing this.
I met Jenn Monty at ConDFW in 2012 and she has been one of my biggest fans and supporters of my writing ever since then. That fandom turned into a friendship and also she has been a guest panelist at All-Con with me for the past two years in 2013 and at this year's convention last weekend. She is an awesome author and I am now one of her biggest fans in return. Check out her blog called Brewed Bohemian where she not only posts some of her poetry and flash fiction, but also information about writing events and web sites online, and her reviews about beer, coffee, and tea. She also pontificates about other random topics as well. Check it out, as there is a wealth of information there.
I met Jessica Scott through the Bedford Public Library Friends Writers Circle which is a critique and support group that I have been a member of since 2010. Jessica joined earlier this year and I have been really enjoying her poetry and short fiction that she shares with the group and posts on her blog which is called The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet. Is that not the most awesome blog name ever? I knew when I put this event together that I really wanted her to read some of her work out loud.
Darwin Prophet is a singer, songwriter, musician and author of prose and poetry who I met at a Steampunk Convention called The Difference Engine on New Year's Eve in 2011 when she was performing with her group Darwin Prophet & the Chronus Mirror. I have been attending her performances whenever I get the chance as she is one of my favorite performers. She is also a good friend of mine. I heard her read from some of her work at All-Con last year and was impressed by her excellent writing style and wonderful voice for the spoken word as well as her musical vocals. I regret that she will not be able to perform her music at this event since the store recently changed its policy about having performances in the community room where we are meeting. I am very much looking forward to hearing her read some of her writing again. Click on her website here at Darwin Prophet.
William Ledbetter and I met at ConDFW this year when we had our book signings together at the same table. He has written over thirty speculative fiction stories and non fiction articles in collections like Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future, Escape Pod, Ad Astra and Baen Books, just to name a few. He administers the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for Baen Books and the National Space Society, is a member of the National Space Society of North Texas, is the Science Track coordinator for the Fencon convention and is a consulting editor at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. I knew he would be a great established author to bring on board for the readings.Check out his web page here at William Ledbetter.
I've known C. Dean Andersson since I first met him at ConDFW in 2011. He has been writing heroic fiction and horror since the 1980's and has eleven novels and numerous short stories published both in the USA and internationally. He is a very quiet, unassuming kind of person, and just about the nicest guy you could meet. He writes some awesome tales. His website is here at C. Dean Andersson.com
Please join us for a fun evening of poetry and prose and help show your support for local authors.
The Short Pale Writer in the Long Black Coat at All-Con Dallas
"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."
-Paul Engle
The Short Pale Writer in the Long Black Coat will be at All-Con Dallas this weekend. It is a fan based convention for all things from science fiction, fantasy, horror, literature, writing, film, television, geek culture, role playing games, board games, cosplaying, music, and much, much more. Joining me for several panels is the always awesome Jenn Monty, who has put a lot of work into out panel content this year coming up with the topis and doing research on our subjects. Thank You Jenn! She is an excellent writer , one of my good friends and also I'm happy to say, a devout fan of my writing. She will be with me on the following panels: Diesel vs. Steam: The elements of a good "Punk" story, Novel Creation Notebook, Creative Collaborations, Writing Technology, Writing Gore: How Much is Too Much? Also with me on the Diesel vs. Steam panel will be my good friends Larry and Tina Amyett from the North Texas Dieselpunks. With me during the Speculative Fiction Author reading and the panel, Creating Interesting Characters and Worlds, are two authors and friends of mine, Ethan Nahte and Mel White. And then for the Songs for a Mechanical Age – The Poetry of Steampunk panel, I will be joining my friend and fellow Seadog Slam crew member Stephen Sanders. Here is my schedule of appearances for discussion panels and literary readings:
Friday 3-14
Speculative Fiction Author Reading
Maple (Friday)8:00 PM – 8:45 PM (Rated: Mature)
Diesel vs. Steam: The elements of a good "Punk" story
Maple (Friday) 9:00 PM – 9:45 PM (Rated: Mature)
Saturday 3-15
Novel Creation Notebook
Maple (Saturday) 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM (Rated: Mature)
Songs for a Mechanical Age – The Poetry of Steampunk
Elm (Saturday)1:00 PM – 1:45 PM (Rated: Everyone)
Creative Collaborations
Elm (Saturday) 8:00 PM – 8:45 PM (Rated: Teen)
Writing Gore: How Much is Too Much?
Maple (Saturday) 11:00 PM – 11:45 PM (Rated: Adult)
Sunday 3-16
Creating Interesting Characters and Worlds
Maple (Sunday) 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM (Rated: Everyone)
Writing Technology
Pecan (Sunday) 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM (Rated: Teen)
I hope to see many of you, my friends, there this weekend. It is an extremely fun event and you will have a blast. I know I do every year. There will be room parties Friday and Saturday night, so the fun will last late into the wee hours and all weekend long. And so I leave you with another pithy quote:
"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
-William Cobbett
Writing Process Blog Hop
Okay, so I haven't been keeping up with the blog every week like I keep saying I was going to do. I guess I'm just a slacker. I was supposed to post this a week or two ago, but better late than never I always say. A writer friend of mine, Jenn M (@brewedbohemian on Twitter) who posts her brewed bohemian blog asked me to do a blog hop tour and answer some questions and pass the baton on to three more bloggers who are supposed to do the same. Jenn's blog has all kinds of cool stuff about writing, and her culinary adventures about beers, coffees, tea,food and other assorted topics. You can read some of her excellent poetry and flash fiction there as well. She is a very talented wordsmith and I'm looking forward to reading some of her longer fiction that she is currently working on. I met Jenn at ConDFW a couple of years ago when I was there as a guest author and she became one of my first big fans of my writing.
1) What am I working on?
A lot of things. I'm writing a short story for a horror anthology that John Manning is producing, and another story for Michael H. Hanson's Sha'Daa shared world anthology series. I'm workimg on a story for a space opera shared world anthology called Not to Yield that Michael Hanson, Ed McKeown and I are collaborating on with several other writers. Janet Morris and Chris Morris are putting together a heroic fantasy anthology that I plan on writing something to be submitted but I have only gotten into the early brain storming stage on that. I have three novels in progress that I go back and forth working on from time to time when I figure out what's supposed to happen next. One of these is dark fantasy/sword & sorcery, another is a sort of light, funny (hopefully) adventure fantasy, and a paranormal romance, just to see if I can write in that genre and because well, they sell like hotcakes and I really could use the money. I really want to get my first novel done and on the market. I'm always working out ideas and characters for the next Heroes in Hell shared universe anthology. Poets in Hell comes out this June, and the next book we are working on to be released in 2015 is Doctors in Hell, which should be as much fun or more to do than any of the other books I have stories in. I still don't know who my character doctors will be. We use real figures from history and fictionalize them for the stories which all take place in hell in all it's myriad forms and from all the myths and religions of the world. I do know that my recurring characters, Anton LaVey and Guy Fawkes will be in the story, getting into more trouble as always. I've been writing a lot of poetry lately, some of it specifically of a piratical theme for the performing group The Seadog Slam that I was asked to join earlier this year. We also put on a Steampunk show every month and so I've been composing some things in that vein as well.
2) How does my work differ from others of its genre?
Hmmm. Well, other than when I'm submitting to a genre specific anthology I really don't write specific to a certain genre. But I'd say that my work tends to blend irreverent humor with dark subject matter and has a certain snarkiness to it that defines my writing. With my poetry I tend to do a lot of free verse, although I do sometimes have some rhyming verse.
3) Why do I write what I do?
Because it's fun! As I mentioned above I tend to write darker stuff, but with a certain amount of tongue in cheek humor to lighten the mood. I grew up reading pretty much everything I could get me hands on, but Science fiction, fantasy, sword & sorcery and horror, were my mainstays of entertainment reading and still are. I like to write what I read. I figure I know these genres like the back of my hand so they come naturally to me as a writer. Now, the exception to this is the paranormal romance novel I mentioned. I want to challenge myself to get outside my comfort zone and see what I can do with this. I need to do some more reading of the genre I think to get a better grasp of how thing are supposed to work. Although I'm sure I'll break a lot of the rules and standard tropes that paranormal romances tend to employ.
4) How does your writing process work?
My writing process is described as sporadic at best. I usually start with a kernel of an idea, maybe I know the general plot premise, or who the main character or characters are, and then have to build a story around that. Often I know how a story will begin and end, very early on. The middle bit is what stumps me a lot of the time. Sometimes the process doesn't work at all. Some days I just can't get my head into the characters, or they aren't speaking to me to tell me what they are going to do or say next. I get frustrated at this, but it is an inevitable part of a writer's life. I keep a lot of stories going all the time, so if I can't figure out what I am doing in one of them, I have plenty of others to work on that hopefully I will be able to make progress on. Some days I am just too mentally drained to write at all. I put a lot of emotional and mental energy into my writing. It can be exhausting drawing that out of myself and into the story or poem. And sometimes what I'm writing doesn't feel right and I have to change things or even start all over again until it resonates with me more completely.
Picking up the Blog Hop Tour baton and posting answers to these questions next is Jessica Scott, a writer whose poetry and prose I have only just recently gotten to enjoy. She is an awesome writer and her work is very emotionally evocative. Also I think the title for her blog is so cool. Here is her info:
Jessica Scott is a Texas native, born in Tulia, Tx and raised in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She's just beginning her writing journey, though she's been writing since high school. Her focus is mostly poetry but she is currently working on some story ideas. She writes often on her blog, The Lunatic, the Lover, & the Poet at peaseblossym.wordpress.com where she shares some of her poetry, stories, and thoughts.
The Life of a Piratical Con Man
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." Rudyard Kipling
I have two big events coming up this week that involve my writing and public speaking.
The first one is An Evening of Pirate Poetry and Tales of the Sea with The Seadog Slam crew. This is a recurring event every third Wednesday of the month at 7:30 PM at the Half Price Books flagship store at 5803 E. Northwest Highway Dallas, TX 75231. This month on Feb 19th we are doing Pirate Idol which is our open microphone part of the show where members of the audience can perform on stage. Music, singing, and poetry readings of a nautical nature are all welcome. Dress in your best pirate garb if you have it, and hang out with us for a fun filled evening. I'll be reading an original poem or two, and maybe something from one of my favorite classical poets. I am happy to say that I have been made an auxiliary member of the Seadog Slam crew and am very honored to perform with these fine folks.
The next one is ConDFW, an annual literary convention that takes place on Feb 21st-23rd this year in Dallas. It is held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 14315 Midway Road, Addison, Texas 75001. I will be a guest author at this event doing discussion panels, a book signing, and a story reading. Below is my schedule for the weekend:
READING (Trinity VIII)
Saturday, 10am: Michelle Muenzler, Larry Atchley, Jr., Bev Hale
PROGRAMMING 2 (Chinaberry)
Saturday, 12pm: Researching the Past: Creating Historical Fiction
Panelists: Taylor Anderson, Larry Atchley, Jr., Lou Antonelli (M), Sabine Starr, Melanie Fletcher
It is hard to recreate the past without doing research into it. This is simply because we, the readers and authors, didn't LIVE in that past. Thus, to understand what it was like to live in those times we must look to other sources for information – journals, pictures, drawings, anything we can get our hands on. Our panelists explain where to go and what to look for when trying to create another time in our heads.
MAIN PROGRAMMING (Addison Lecture Hall)
Saturday, 5pm: Writing and Collaborating in Shared World Anthologies
Panelists: Larry Atchley Jr. (M), Bev Hale, P.N. Elrod, Sabine Starr
Star Wars, Star Trek, Middle Earth, War of the Worlds. There are many worlds out there which authors love to explore. But how do you put one together many visions into one book? How do you write for such an anthology? Our panelists talk about their experiences with shared world anthologies.
PROGRAMMING 2 (Chinaberry)
Saturday, 6pm: Horror 101: Exploring the subgenres
Panelists: C. Dean Andersson (M), Christopher Fulbright, Stormy Stogner Medina, Larry Atchley Jr.
There are so many genres that are lumped together into Horror. Examples are: Lovecraftian, Ghosts, Zombies, Urban, Apocalypse, Epic, Splatter-punk, Slasher, Asian, and the many Witch-Werewolf-Vampire types (True Love vs Dresden Files vs Twilight vs etc.). We bring together several of our acclaimed horror writers to explain what horror truly is, and where to look for inspiration.
AUTOGRAPHS (Dealers Room)
Sunday, 2pm: Larry Atchley, Jr., William Ledbetter
PROGRAMMING 3 (Trinity VII)
Sunday, 3pm: Upwardly Mobile: Writing about Dirigibles and Other Flights of Fancy
Panelists: Larry Atchley, Jr. (M), Lou Antonelli, Rachel Acks, Rie Sheridan Rose, Shanna Swendson
One of the most common sights in both Steampunk and Cyberpunk is the dirigible. Otherwise known as zeppelins or blimps, the hydrogen or helium filled craft lazily float through the sky. It is one thing, however, to imagine it. It is entirely another to be able to write about it believably. For instance, which of the above named craft has NO internal supporting frame? (Blimps!) Our authors talk about the differences and other things to know about when writing about semi-rigid airships.
I really love this convention, for so many reasons, and it's great to meet up with a lot of my writer friends who i usually only see two or three times a year at these events. I'd love to see you at the con, so come out and have fun with me and my fellow authors.
On the writing front, I have been penning some poetry lately and trying to work on some of my short stories and novels in progress. The poetry seems to be coming fairly easily lately,but the prose, not so much. I've been having a hard time getting my head into the stories or into the frame of mind of my characters well enough to do much writing on them. I'm hoping this will change soon, as I have way too much that needs to be written to let anything slow me down. I know it will pass in time, but I'm anxious to get these stories finished and put to bed. I have editors waiting for some of these and I hate to miss a deadline or lose an opportunity to get them published in their respective anthologies. I may need to have a steel cage wrestling match with my inner demons, or entice my muse with chocolate and music so I can get these suckers done and dusted.
Well that's it for this week. I hope to see you all at these fun events this week. Until then I leave you with another pithy quote to close out my post.
"No writing comes alive unless the writer sees across his desk a reader, and searches constantly for the word or phrase which will carry the image he wants the reader to see, and arouse the emotion he wants him to feel. Without consciousness of a live reader, what a man writes will die on his page." Barbara W. Tuchman

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don't forget the pickled green chillies
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a little too fatty for me
They have increased the selection instead of just the signature noodle.
I strongly recommend the signature noodle.
This is the only thing I eat there cause it is the BEST!
|we tried the prawn dumplings
nice :-)
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best time to go is lunch time on Saturday
|the ever smiling and friendly owners
makes the noodles even tastier when it is service with a smile
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they even have their own website
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Daughter Carol and grandson Aidan grilled hamburgers for dinner. We all ate until we were stuffed, and then we watched a little t.v.
The only crafting I managed to accomplish was to crochet one coaster.
I found this pretty coaster pattern for free. I wanted one that would fit on top of my stone coaster. I drink a lot of ice water in the summer, and the stone coaster just can't absorb all of the condensation. This one is just a little too large.
I'll either try crocheting this pattern in sport weight cotton rather than worsted weight, or I'll find a smaller coaster pattern. I want it to be the same size as the stone coaster so that I don't miss and set my cup off the edge. You know what a mess that would create!


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Memon imposes 'rain emergency' in Sindh
Keeping in view the threat of imminent rainstorm, the minister has issued directives to all the administrators of KMC, District administrators and Municipal commissioners to remain alert for any untoward weather situation.
In a statement issued on Monday, the provincial minister ordered the immediate cleaning of all the sewerage and drainage lines and has directed fishermen to stay away from the sea for at least two days.
The warning was given after the Met Office predicted a rainstorm in the province similar to that of KP.
The minister directed the Managing Director Water Board and other concerned officials to take emergency measures for the repair of sewerage lines.
It must be noted that a tornado in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province on Sunday killed more than 45 people and rendered a number of others homeless.


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Amazon Echo-Like Device Designed Especially For Kids :One can observe an increasing number of young consumers of technology in the market these days.
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In a similar effort, Toymaker Mattel announced the Aristotle by Nabi, a $299 voice-controlled smart baby monitor at the CES event.
The company with the help of Microsoft and Qualcomm uses artificial intelligence, natural language interactions and Internet of Things technologies to create a cloud-connected platform for kids.
Aristotle features a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct speaker with multi-coloured LED lights, and Wi-Fi camera with object recognition.
"The company is employing 256-bit encryption through the cloud, and complying with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which aims to protect the privacy of children under 13," reported The Next Web.
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Barclays (NYSE:BCS) CEO Antony Jenkins has agreed to waive his 2012 bonus amid the bank's recent troubles, saying that he should "bear an appropriate degree of accountability."
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Jenkins, who took the British bank's reins in August after Bob Diamond stepped down for Barclay's involvement in the Libor scandal, said he was aware of the speculation and public interest into whether he would receive a bonus for his 2012 performance.
The chief said he decided earlier this week that he does not wish to be considered for a bonus and has communicated that decision to the board.
"The year just past was clearly a very difficult one for Barclays and its stakeholders, with multiple issues of our own making besetting the bank," Jenkins said. "I have concluded that it would be wrong for me to receive a bonus for 2012 given those circumstances."
The award could have fetched as much as 2.75 million pounds, or $4.35 million, which would have been on top of his base salary of 1.1 million pounds ($1.75 million).
Among Barclays' issues this year was a $450 million fine from U.S. and U.K. regulators for its part in a global interest rate rigging scandal as well as scandals involving the improper selling of payment protection insurance in its retail business.


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The hunt for places on Jamaica's team to the IAAF World Championships in London begins today at the National Stadium.
General secretary of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, declared yesterday that all is in place for the four-day meet.
"After several meetings with the organising committee, preparations are in full gear and the stage is now set for a successful staging of another National Senior Championships which this time will run concurrently with the Junior Championships which will begin tomorrow," Gayle said.
He added: "We can expect great competition over the next four days and I am especially pleased with the progress that our athletes have made in the field events and come at the end of the championships we could have one of our biggest ever teams to a World Championships based on the excellent form the athletes have been showing all season."
Action will start at 10 a.m. with the qualifying round of the men's 100 metres. Seven of 26 athletes will will advance to the quarter final round which is slated for 7 p.m. The big guns - big favourite Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell, Kemar Bailey-Cole, and Jevaughn Minzie will take the track in this round. The women's 100 metres will go straight to a semi-final round which begins tomorrow.
On the track also will be the preliminary round of the women's and men's 400m hurdles. The women's event will get under way at 6:05 p.m with the men to take the track at 6:20 p.m.
Janieve Russell and Ristananna Tracy, the last two champions, are the top competitors in the women's 400m hurdles. The field will also include Leah Nugent, a finalist at the Rio Olympic Games last year, Ronda Whyte, Sashel Brown and Nikita Tracy. The final is set for tomorrow at 8 p.m.
Two athletes ranked in the world top ten will face the starter in the preliminary round of the men's 400m hurdles. Kemar Mowatt and young Jaheel Hyde, with times of 48.49 and 48.52 respectively, are ninth and tenth on the list. Former champion Roxroy Cato along with Andre Clarke, Shawn Rowe and defending champion Annswert Whyte who is yet to hit top form should advance to tomorrow's final set for 8:20 p.m.
Two field event finals will be contested today. The men's javelin throw starts at 5:30 p.m , just two minutes ahead of the men's triple jump which will begin at 5:32 p.m.
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This Week in Biotech: Part 2
As I stated in Part 1 of this week's review, it was an incredible busy week in the biotech sector, even on top of existing earnings reports. In part one, we took a look at the clinical data and partnership announcements that made waves this week. Now we'll take a closer look at the FDA rulings and mergers that shook the sector.
FDA rulings
In the plus column, Roche received yet another approved indication for its blockbuster cancer drug Avastin as a second-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Avastin is already approved as a first-line treatment to be used in combination with a chemotherapy agent, but can now be continued into the second-line of treatments as the disease progresses, or if the patient stops responding to the first-line regimen. Roche is slowly whittling away the pain it will feel from Avastin's original patent expirations with each new indication.
Novartis also broke into the positive when it announced the approval of Bexsero in the European Union for the treatment of meningitis B. The news shouldn't come as too much of a shock,0 because the Committee for Medical Products for Human Use, or CHMP, which is the E.U. equivalent to the FDA panel, recommended approval of Bexsero back in November. As noted by Novartis, it will be the only meningitis-B vaccine approved for all age groups, including infants.According to Reuters, analysts are projecting that peak sales of the drug will top out around $600 million to $700 million.
Not all news coming across the wires was positive, though, with Impax Laboratories receiving a dreaded complete response letter on Monday from the FDA for Rytary, its idiopathic Parkinson's disease drug. Once again, Rytary's efficacy and safety weren't in question. Instead, concerns were raised about a reinspection of Impax's Hayward facility, which it had ruled out when it filed its new drug application. With little clarity about what's troubling the FDA with regard to Rytary's manufacturing process, it could be another six months to a year before Impax gets Rytary before the FDA again.
Last, but certainly not least, we had the $958 million buyout of MAP Pharmaceuticals by Allergan . MAP's lead product, Levadex, an inhaled migraine medication, initially failed to gain FDA approval in March last year because of manufacturing process concerns. Once again, as with Rytary, there were no concerns raised by the FDA with regard to safety or efficacy. MAP has refiled its NDA with the FDA and expects a ruling before April 15. For Allergan, which had licensing rights to Levadex within the U.S., this appears a smart move with a Levadex approval all but in the bag.
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Vignettes from Hong Kong Police history
"From British Bobby to Hong Kong Copper"
Talk at The National Archives (TNA), Kew
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Fashion has been in love with the blazer for sometime now. Mannish and androgynous or sexy for night in the shape of the tux jacket, the blazer has lent our wardrobes (bursting with dresses) a boyish edge. Chances are you already have the now ubiquitous blazer in your wardrobe. So what makes a trophy jacket different? Embellished, textured, ornate, and beautifully tailored it is a statement piece intended to wow not blend in, and will instantly flash your impeccable fashion credentials. And more importantly why do we suddenly need it? It works with the new tailored trousers, makes the harem pants grown up and gives your ripped denim much needed polish.
This season designers recognised that in the unsteady financial climate we would all have to think harder about what we buy, and would all want to invest in pieces that we could keep forever, not just one season. Their answer was the trophy jacket.
At Dolce & Gabbana it came with huge sculptural shoulders (click her to see Gwyneth Paltrow wearing it on the cover of this month's ELLE.) Luella's had the look of Chanel on acid (traditional tweed but in fuchsia and orange with punky zips), Balmain's were military inspired with Swarvosky encrusted epaulettes and at Chanel, arguably the home of the trophy jacket, Karl Lagerfeld sent his reworked for 2009 Chanel jackets down the catwalk adorned with layers of crystals and huge oversi


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Mathair is a 10" vinyl EP from Mothlite, the brainchild of Daniel O'Sullivan (Ulver, Aethenor, Miracle etc), featuring four new tracks plus a remix of Seeing In The Dark, a piece from 2012's Dark Age album.
Dark Age, the follow-up to 2008's The Flax Of Reverie, was rated as one of the top 50 albums of 2012 by The Quietus, who described it as, 'a startling, frank examination of the human (and perhaps especially male) condition delivered via synth bombast and towering choruses'. The NME stated; 'listening to 'Dark Age' can feel like sensory immersion... the album transcends genre, yet takes elements from the dark shadows of industrial rock and the glitch of electronica...it's a beguiling affair', while Wire noted that 'O'Sullivan is steadily carving a niche for himself as a highly accomplished avant-pop polymath.'
Pre-order for 9th December release.
Side A:
1 Dawn Lake
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Seeing In The Dark, the new single from Mothlite, is released on Kscope on August 13th. Mothlite is the brainchild of Daniel O'Sullivan (Ulver, Æthenor, Miracle ,Grumbling Fur) and the single is taken from Dark Age, the band's second album which was released earlier this year on Kscope.
Daniel and Knut chat about Dark Age's music and artwork
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Daniel O'Sullivan' second album under the Mothlite moniker is OUT NOW. 'Dark Age' is the follow-up to 2008's 'The Flax Of Reverie'.
Having spent a lot of time recently working as a collaborator with Æthenor, Miracle and Grumbling Fur as well as his much acclaimed work as part of Ulver, O'Sullivan felt it was time to return to Mothlite so as to work on something unequivocally personal:
"All the other things are collaborations and there's a communal interest, but with Mothlite the content is quite personal and to do with me. It's quite easy to neglect, particularly when you're in a bit of a shit storm as I was the past couple of years."
"This is prevalent in the lyrical content, which denotes a catharsis throughout a period of hysteria and emotional turmoil". He describes 'Dark Age' as "Dark megalomania, contradictions and paradoxes, and general bleakness", yet rarely does such subject matter get delivered with the soaring pop aplomb as on the album's twelve tracks, flitting from sparkle and rumble of 'The Blood' to the epic washes of 'The Underneath' and beyond.
The album has allowed O'Sullivan to break free from the confines of genre, taking influence from the likes of Tears For Fears and Kate Bush from his parents' record collection through the industrial and gothic textures of DAF, The Cure, Coil and Dead Can Dance to the hardcore punk of his own personal roots. Indeed, O'Sullivan's use of contradiction within the style of the record is a very deliberate choice: "If it was too bleak, with melancholy overriding the whole thing, then I'd counteract it with a huge chorus or huge hook" O'Sullivan's chief collaborator in Mothlite is Norwegian producer Knut Jonas Sellevold (Elektrofant, King Knut). Arranger, composer and beat-maker of the highest order.
Now the album is done, O'Sullivan is ready to move onto new things. "To be honest, I'm really glad that it's over," he says. "I felt like I couldn't move until I got that out there." As well as plans for a new Mothlite record, this forward surge includes exploring "ideas and schemes" as to how 'Dark Age' will transfer to the road. "Now that the drama has played out and everyone can see what it is, I can almost do a theatrical version of the scenes within. I don't want to look as though I'm crying down the microphone night after night if we go on tour. I'd rather have a show."
Wounded Lions
Seeing In The Dark
The Blood
Something In The Sky
The Underneath
Dreamsinter Nightspore
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