Posts by Piers

HI- As I remarked last year, I am a writer, and when other things crowd out my writing, I have to act to recover my working time. I try to…

HI- If you pounce immediately, as an early reader of this column, you can buy the electronic edition of my naughty novel The Sopaths for a penny under two dollars.…

HI- I am at present alternating my reading and reviewing novels with my reading of research books for my serious novel Deep Well. I read Geothermal Engineering Fundamentals and Applications,…

HI- Mannison Press published, as of Apull 7, a neat booklet containing a trio of stories I wrote for them: "Walk the Walk," wherein a lonely little girl rescues a…

HI- Doug Harter has updated the Xanth Character database (XCD) with Skeleton Key. The XCD is available in both PDF and HTML versions on the website. That is Xanth #44,…

HI- I declared a moratorium on reading novels last year, so I could get my own writing done. I finished writing Xanth #47 Apoca Lips, then got into another collaboration,…

HI- I have mentioned that I seldom remember my dreams, and those I do remember usually aren't much. But once in a while I do discover novelty. Here is one…

HI- I stopped reading novels for the rest of this year, because they were squeezing out my writing time, which was already compressed by complications of the virus lockdown and…

HI - I use the Ogre Months. Ogres are justifiably proud of their stupidity, and their memory isn’t so great either, so they have trouble remembering a month this late…

HI- OctOgre 3 addition: My thanks to Salguod Retrah, who keeps the Xanth Character Database up to date. He added the characters from Jest Right in SapTimber. MANNISON PRESS, of…