I’ve just been doing a little survey of my books online. It was horrifying. The bookshops have their own mark-ups…
I don’t often apologize for anything, but in this case, I feel obliged. There were quite a few commenters on…
I don’t apologize much or often, but I feel I owe readers an apology for the abysmal default fonts on…
To my surprise, I seem to have been getting a lot of hits on the Contact page. The Contact page…
I’ve been seeing a lot of spam recently. It will NEVER be posted. Nothing goes online unless it’s NOT spam.…
The website will be on hiatus as of next week 11May 2020. I’ve had it for years, but I’m not…
I’ve been seeing a lot of spam comments. Take your clickbait garbage elsewhere. Get this straight: Every post is checked…
This is the third time I have tried to run a simple WordPress blog. It has been a truly infuriating…
Al had been laughing about the Australian winter until it decided to retaliate. Recovering from a cold, he was wrapped…
I didn’t notice that the chapter finished off a couple of paragraphs after the previous post. By way of compensation,…
This one’s dated a bit because it was written 20 years ago. The points about music monoculture still apply. The…
Bound to happen. A Personage appears for the agency to turn into something. More out of curiosity than real interest…
The agency tries TV ads with a comedian. The reality of comedy is the problem. SCENE; Sickeningly well groomed person…
A suspicious character arrives. Joe doesn’t like him, and Al instinctively distrusts him. The agency is now trying to do…
Decision time! Brought to you by several decades of American cliches that Al is trying to escape. Al rang everyone…
The party continues, with Dorothy explaining her need for an army of immortal cats and a strange end to the…
Big decision, and no guidelines. Al has to make up his mind. Al hadn’t had any particular thoughts about visas,…
The agency is finally up and running. Carla’s friend Sally runs a model agency called Hard Women. There’s a shoot…