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Television & Movies Write, Write, You Bloody Well Write

Thanks to all the VWORPers and Storybundlers out there!

McCoy's bookin' itThanks to all who have bought the unofficial Doctor Who Storybundle thus far – the feedback’s been great so far.

If you like my occasional Whovian musings, also check out my fellow authors’ sites (and their other books):

See what I said about good company? And quite a few mentions on the web:

Thanks to everyone who has partaken so far – spread the word, there are only 12 days and change left! Do it in the name of peace and sanity and affordable ebooks!

Also: please remember to write reviews on sites such as Amazon and Goodreads, not only of my books but the others you read in the Who Storybundle. As I said in an earlier post, for those of us trying to hit escape velocity, break out of the orbit of our old lives and become full-time writers, you’re writing our new resumes when you review our books. If nobody reviews a book, it kinda looks like no one’s read it either.

Holding out for a physical copy? Hit me up at Glitchcon in two weeks, I’m always happy to sign ’em.… Read more

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Music Television & Movies

Kasatochi gets Wibbly Wobbly

KasatochiAfter the collections of Star Trek and Star Wars music, this was pretty much inevitable, wasn’t it? This collection includes musical tributes to the world’s longest-running sci-fi series, taking in themes from both the classic and new series. In fact, it’s not unusual to hear themes from both ends of the spectrum within the same track. And as always, it’s lovingly turned into NES-style chipmusic – a real trip back in time. What if there had been an awesome 8-bit Doctor Who game, and this was the music from it? … Read more

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Funny Stuff Television & Movies

To WHO it may concern, GREETINGS!!1!

Who goes thereThe past week or so has been interesting in the world of Doctor Who fandom. Honestly, I’ve almost forgotten that we’re supposed to be taking bets on who replaces Matt Smith at this point. On the off-chance that you’re not really a Doctor Who fan yourself… well, first off, what on Earth are you doing at this web site, which is fairly dripping with Doctor Who?

But, beyond that, all you really need to know is this: during the 1960s, Doctor Who was produced in black & white on video, and the series was made almost year-round to the tune of one 25-minute episode per week. The videotapes were transferred to a more universal medium – film – and sold abroad, often dubbed into the local language. From various points in Europe to the Middle East and beyond, these films were “bicycled” from broadcaster to broadcaster, a practice that was still in force as recently as my early years in the TV biz (I distinctly remember that, at the station where I worked in the early ’90s, episodes of Mama’s Family were bicycled from station to station; no, I don’t know why either).

And then, in the late ’60s, staring down the barrel of an impending change of video format with little reasonable expectation that programs recorded in the older, lower-resolution format could ever be exploited commercially, and knowing that yet a further new format would be introduced in due course (namely, color television), the British Broadcasting Corporation issued internal instructions to its videotape archive: get rid of these old shows. Get rid of everything that isn’t of obvious historic value (such as footage of the Queen’s coronation). In the BBC’s view, there was no point in wasting all of that valuable space to preserve programming which had no commercial future.

If only they’d known. … Read more

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Funny Stuff Television & Movies

Tactical disadvantage

Sorry I broke my daily blogging stint there for a bit. I’ve been busy, and I’ve been trying my best not to transmit my annual deep blue Christmas funk to everyone on the internet because, really, who needs it? I don’t even want it. This came dangerously close to curing it, though:

I’ve already suggested, via Twitter, that there may be real money in having Strax here do a whole album of Christmas songs. I was originally trying to persuade William Shatner to do the same, but after seeing this, I have a new mission. 😆… Read more

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Gaming

My Dalek check(ers) bounced!

DalekSeems like it was only a couple of weeks ago that I was announcing Dalek Checkers would be played at my GlitchCon booth – oh wait, it was only a couple of weeks ago – but there’s a bit of bad news: in trying to work out the details of the actual board, I quickly came to the realization that it’d take more than half of the entire table. If this were OVGE, I’d say “hell yeah, buy an extra table just for this!“, but the tables cost four times what they did at OVGE. The idea here was to bring money in by selling books… so that’s gotta take precedence. My apologies for all three people who may be disappointed. 😆

The concept may resurface somewhere down the road, perhaps at OVGE. We’ll see.

I may bring a few display items to GlitchCon, but I’ve gotta keep the focus on the books and DVDs I’m there to sell. (And considering how past OVGE crowds have been about display items that aren’t for sale, I’m not even sure how much of that I plan on doing here.) I don’t want to have a bare table, but I also don’t want what’s on the table to completely obfuscate the fact that I’m trying to sell some books. :p… Read more