What did you blog about today?

[Stephen Palmer]

It's got a distinct flavour of Hairy London to it...

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Congratulations, Stephen!

If it has a flavor of Hairy London it must be mad indeed.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Knotty Geeks.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Today's blog is about Macedonian She-Wolves:
http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/macedonian-she-wolves.html

It's not the best-known historical period, but I really like the Diadochi era. Just about everyone was fiercely competitive, competent, bold, intelligent, and willing to do battle or commit murder. And the women were just as bad/good as the men.

[I could also have mentioned Cratesipolis[sp], Polyperchon's daughter-in-law, but my knowledge of her is much more limited].

Edited extra bit: that said, I do know that's just her nickname, and it means Conqueror of the City.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

The Humans…

 

[Juliana]

Goodness, @thaddeus6th, what a blood-thirsty blog post!

Nice interview, @Stephen Palmer.

 

[thaddeus6th]

There's nothing bloodthirsty about a woman pre-emptively murdering her rivals just in case one of them *might* be pregnant.

Ahem.

 

[Juliana]

Well no, not that bit of course. That's just common sense...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Another book review… "Where Do Camels Belong?"

 

[ratsy]

Hello. I have a new blog site! I'm hoping to keep up with some great content. I'll have my first interview up within the week I hope!

Please subscribe to the blog if you want to keep up to date!

http://nathanhystad.com/2015/10/26/new-blog-site/

Also, let me know what you think of the look. It is fairly basic but I will try to mess around with it.

 

[Droflet]

Yep, it's basic alright. But a good starting point for someone embarking on a new chapter in their life. Cough. Look forward to seeing what comes next. At least, unlike me, you've got something out there. Well done, young sir.

 

[thaddeus6th]

I like a basic approach. Fancy flim-flam is not appealing.

 

[Juliana]

For this month's Spotlight I have @Gary Compton and Aty talking cover art:

http://jspinkmills.com/2015/11/02/spotlight-on-cover-art-with-aty-s-behsam-and-gary-compton/

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

The design of your website looks very clean, ratsy. It gives you a chance to add images to some of your entries without it looking cluttered.

Nice interview, Juliana. Gary and Aty have such different approaches, the contrast was interesting.

 

[ratsy]

Good one Juliana. I am in the process of having two covers made this month(might be done in December though more likely), and have seen rough drawings for the first one so far. Both artists take a different approach and I can't wait to see what the end results will be. There is something truly exciting about the process from my point of view though.

Thanks Teresa. I kind of like the clean approach, and I may tweak as I go but for now I will stick with this format.

 

[ratsy]

I said I was going to do interviews on the new blog and the first of these is up! Ralph Kern was kind enough to join me for a few questions.

http://nathanhystad.com/2015/11/04/author-interview-with-ralph-kern/

 

[Juliana]

Great interview, Ralph and Ratsy.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nice interview - and it came over well in the email I received this morning about it, with nice clean graphics.

 

[ratsy]

Good. I was hoping...it took me a while to get this one straight, and had to go into the html to change fonts because they weren't matching. You would think you could do something like select all and adjust font in wordpress?? maybe you can, and I just couldn't find it

 

[Juliana]

A review of @chopper's new novel.

http://jspinkmills.com/2015/11/07/the-heir-to-the-north-by-steven-poore/