I just checked my account, and Enchanted Glass has been dispatched. O frabjous day! This will be one parcel Toby doesn’t bring in.

This is not a history book or a travel book. It is a sociology of Cairo or, more properly, a celebration of Cairo. Excellent research and observation plus sharp writing made me laugh aloud a couple of times. It is a story of a city, but also of the triumph of humanity which no matter…

Because I haven’t been posting about the tie in between numinous encounters and urban fantasy doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about it. I don’t want to use numinous as interchangeable with supernatural. A numinous experience is literally awesome. Beyond curiosity, it offers a genuine challenge and opportunity to self-assess, change and grow. Recently on…

This desire to return to the dirtis a definition of identity.I am hydrogen, oxygen, carbon,all furnaced before time emerged.Given life in composite.A few years, and falling apart.Is this what Yeats meant,the centre cannot hold?Who wants it to hold?Return me to the dirtand I will be ants, trees, other people;perpetuated not by DNAbut by belonging and…

Thanks to Author Scoop for the link on the number of books which never sell and have to be “dealt with”. Interesting comment tucked in the article on literary novels. Seems this is an argument that never dies. Either you adore literary novels, their innovation, the pleasure of their language, etc or you think they’re…