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HI - First, an announcement: Doug Harter has updated the Xanth Character Database through #46 Six Crystal Princesses now coming on sale. That’s the one where two children set out…

This is generally a nice month, warm and pleasant. That’s why the ogres find it boring. It is at least the start of the hurricane season, which of course they…

HI - The ogres really go wild this month, their happiest state. Other creatures may not be as thrilled, as trees crash and splinter, saplings are tied into knots, ponds…

HI- We’re in the Florida dry season, normally being pretty parched until the monsoon months of JeJune, Jewel-Lye, AwGhost, and SapTimber, which run six to twelve inches each. But the…

Marsh 2022 HI- This monthly HiPiers column normally reflects my thoughts of the time, news of my writings, and whatever else intrudes. Mundane news is not much of it. But…

HI- This is the month when the Redberries are blue with cold, so it is named FeBlueberry in the Ogre Calendar. It is perhaps my favorite month, not for the…

HI - This the month when folk are huddling out of the cold, so for the ogres it’s jamboree time. They love the weather normal people hate. As my fans…

HI- Doug Harter reports that the Xanth Character database has been updated through #45 A Tryst of Fate. In my senescence I don't keep properly up with such listings, and…

HI- This is the month of NoRemember, because it comes late in the year and dull-witted ogres like me have trouble remembering it. I think the Mundanes have another name,…

HI- For those who came on my scene later than 1982, I have had a reasonably rough course as a writer. When I demanded that my publisher give me an…