Considering the fact that I stupidly signed up for the ABAA Virtual Book Fair the same weekend that we were traveling to Virginia for a wedding, things worked out pretty well. I fielded orders at rest stops along the way and postponed the resolution of a couple of problems until my return on Monday – […] More >>

While waiting for AI to go rogue and destroy humanity I’ve hired it to help me with some carefully selected research projects. I was using the free version of Chat GPT 5, but it turned out the free version was kinda lazy. After I fed it five files to work with, it wanted to take […] More >>

Not a single book It seems the ABAA has accounting issues or money problems or both. A while back there was a kerfuffle on the ABAA chat line concerning the annual budget. Apparently there were serious losses in some areas. Further communal agita led to the disclosure that all this might just have been due […] More >>

Headed up to the shack in Cape Breton to try to finish a novel, catalog some wonderfully rare manuscript items, and get my annual birthday bike ride in. Hope the weather holds! But before I leave there’s something I’d like to air out in this post… Ever since my brick and mortar days the finances […] More >>

I think I’ve blogged about this before, probably a year ago when I issued my annual “Beach Reading” list. Or maybe the year before that, or one of the many years before that. I’ve been running these long lists of cheap books each summer because people really enjoy good, cheap books, and it’s fun throwing […] More >>