MK Hobson's "The Warlock's Curse"

MK Hobson's family is so determined to make the Kickstarter for her novel "The Warlock's Curse" happen that even her puppies decided to help, and put together a reenactement of the Bridge of Death's scene from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". No puppies were harmed in the making of this movie.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLnimQxR1c )


Details about this Kickstarter can be found here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mkhobson/the-warlocks-curse-3-in-the-veneficas-americana-se/posts/217931?ref=email&show_token=e6c1abde9fbe57be

running out of Hugos

I've been reading as many of the Hugo finalists as I could lay my mitts on, but I'm about to run out. Does anybody know when the Committee will make the full packet available electronically, assuming that last year wasn't a one-shot affair?

"Invincible"

"Invincible", Jack Campbell's latest novel about Black Jack Geary is out today. For those who don't know, Campbell is a nom de plume for John Hemry, who a few years ago wrote a series that I enjoyed and which I nicknamed "JAG in Space".

and now, for the lusty month of May...

Time for the ritual of flipping my office's calendar to the new month. May's art, taken from Planet Stories's September 1951 issue, illustrates "The Incubi of Parallel X":

"The Ffanx had abducted Earth's womankind. A few escaped - to become beautiful, trampling, man-stealing monsters."

That explains why a tank-topped dark-blue giantess is holding in her hand a tiny man pointing his ineffectual... ah... raygun at her. Not exactly the kind of fare one usually expects from Ted Sturgeon.

what it says

When a co-worker thanks you for your prompt responses, and when another co-worker thanks you for giving them the heads-up regarding your upcoming vacation, it probably says more about the team than about yourself.