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It’s almost OVGE time

NOT THE MIND PROBEA great big box of books landed on my doorstep with a resounding thud today, which is pretty much the last step in getting ready for OVGE this Saturday. I think that may actually set a new record for me: I’m finished figuring out what to bring a week out, rather than freaking out the night before. (There have been a couple of years where my theme was decided, and signage and other graphical aids designed and printed to match, literally the night before.) Of course, now the trick is to not spend the next few days second-guessing myself. … Read more

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And the halftime score is…

VWORP!1…one copy bought in the UK, and one copy bought at an unspecified location in Europe. 😆 That’s kinda funny, but here’s the catch: I haven’t really gotten started on promoting the thing heavily to the fan sites yet (that’s my weekend project). These people just found it.

Now here’s a positively surreal sight that I can barely get my head around. … Read more

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Identify yourshelf!… and win a signed copy of VWORP!1

For the “about the author” photo in the back of VWORP!1, I constructed a “set” using plastic shipping crates that a local store’s been getting rid of fairly cheaply; they’re awfully handy things to have around. For lightweight items, they actually make pretty nice shelving. I threw a few knick-knacks from my vast knick-knack collection in there, set them up next to a window where I already have marquees from old arcade games set up, and boom, it looks like I live in a warehouse full of geek-a-licious relics. Which, of course, I do.

Identify yourshelf! … Read more

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Now available…

…and you can order it here.

Me and Dinsdale and VWORP!1

This has been a long process, to say the least. I set out to write this book in 2008, and quickly discovered that it wouldn’t be as easy as “putting the web site on paper.” Nor should it have been – that would’ve been incalculably lazy. What resulted was something far better than that, something that took a hell of a lot more work than that, something that looks pretty decent as an actual book, and something that hopefully everyone will like reading and referring to as much as I liked putting it together.

WARP!1 is coming along nicely; I did a little bit of work on it this morning. There’s no time to pause and reflect. This is merely the next step on the road.… Read more

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Full coverage

I showed these off in theLogBook.com Forums, might as well show them off here (even if they’re still works-in-progress – VWORP!1 and WARP!1 will both almost certainly undergo further tweaks, if not from-the-ground-up reshoots*).

Book covers

As silly as it is to have covers done before there are finished books to go in ’em, it’s kind of a motivational thing for me. And maybe to anyone out there who’d wanna buy ’em.

I promised a downloadable PDF file of excerpts from each of these, plus the also-in-the-works Phosphor Dot Fossils book (let’s call that PDF!1 just for laughs), at OVGE; I’ll see about getting that done soonish.

* they’re actually heavily-treated, composited miniature photography with nifty lighting and crap. My grandfather would either nod in approval or shake his head and tell me I’m doin’ it wrong. Or both.… Read more

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Ramblings from the TARDIS basement

Journey's EndI’d give you my thoughts on the Doctor Who finale, but I decided to just save it for the episode guide this time; you can find it here (but feel free to come back here and comment/debate/tell me I’m as crazy as Davros). For whatever it’s worth, I liked it much better than the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name. 😆

In case I haven’t bragged about it enough yet, this week also wraps up our guide to the entire original series; before the new season began, and back when Evan was itty bitty and napping much of the time, I realized that I had 13 gaps in the original series guide, fitting neatly alongside the 13 episodes that were, at the time, still to come from this season. So I watched and/or listened to those episodes that I hadn’t covered, wrote reviews, and rolled them out side-by-side along with the new season episodes. The guide to 45 years of TV Doctor Who on this site is now finished.

So naturally, what’s next is to rewrite it all. 😆 … Read more