Long awaited site updates

Ok, maybe not so long awaited for the vast majority (and hopefully all) of humanity.  Just added a brief 'about the author' thingy (yes that is the appropriate scientific descriptor) and put in more purchase links for The Greylands.  Also put a note behind the free books so you know where to get them. 

Random book plug

Need a nice little story for the dog days of summer?  Why not try A Dash for the Throne by Arthur W. Marchmont over at project Gutenberg:  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40907  A little adventure, some romance, and a bit of history and mistaken identity make for an amusing read.

On puce

Puce is one of those words that mystifies the masses yet few of us truly know what color this color really is.  I always imagined it as a hideous greenish purplish grey but it is actually a rather nice reddish brown, now you know too!  As to what this has to do with my literary career, on that I have no idea.

Another good excuse

I hate August, it is one of those interminable months like November or March when you are waiting for the last season to get over with and the next to start and the weather really isn't all that great.  The glory of summer has faded yet the splendor of fall has not yet come.  It is hot, dry, dusty, and those wretched cicadas sound like an audible migraine.  Might as well read a book!

A rather unnecessary quiz!

As if you do not have enough else to do this summer (you must be bored else you would not be reading this), here is a little quiz to test your literary knowledge.  If you do not pass, you'll have to repeat the seventh grade, so take this seriously.

1. "The time has come," the Walrus said, "to speak of many things.  Of sailing ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and Kings.  Of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings."  Where does this rhetorical masterpiece come from?

2. In the Anne of Green Gables novels, it is mentioned that an acquaintance of our heroine would have enthusiastically agreed with her even if she had said she felt like a pelican of the wilderness.  Where on earth is a pelican of the wilderness found and what is it?

3. The phrase, 'water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink,' is a common misquote from a lengthy and bizarre poem.  What is the correct quotation and from whence does it come?

Pick up your pencils and begin......the answers are below:















Answers>>>>






1. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll, found in Through the Looking Glass.

2. Psalm 102:6 KJV, "I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the dessert."  This is the cry of a person completely miserable and depressed.

3. 'Water, water, every where,
 And all the boards did shrink;
 Water, water, every where,
 Nor any drop to drink.'

from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

How to catch a rhinoceros

I really have no idea, but it sounds like an interesting reality TV show or maybe it would be better if we all just found a good book!

A Random Quote

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."  G. K. Chesterton