Apparently, taking the Pill makes you more likely to seek out the wrong kind of guy…based on smell. The logic, once you read the article, makes a lot of sense, but….weird! http://www.livescience.com/culture/080812-contraceptive-smell.html
Someone’s giving away two copies of an anthology with a story by John: http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2008/08/giveaway-win-signed-copy-of-mike-allens.html
Bitten By Books just reviewed Bad Ass Faeries Two: Just Plain Bad and my story was one of the few they mentioned. I was so pleased. I’d hoped someone would like it. I prayed a lot before I wrote it. If you follow the link above, you need to page down to see the review. My…
The line “To be or not to be” appeared in an episode of Gilligan’s Island that the children were watching, so Juss wanted to know what it meant. I told him just a little about it, including the fact that Hamlet was a play by Shakespeare, where everyone dies and As You Like It was…
After a year and a half of waiting, (really more, but officially, a year and a half) I finally received the edits for Prospero Lost! This time, it was almost entirely usage issues (language style.) I’ve made all the changes that were requested so far and now only await the responses to questions plus one…
When I was a child, I had two best friends, Dawn and Gina. I met Gina on her sixth birthday, when I was 5 1/2. I remember looking up at her snowman hat on the bus the first day she came to school. Then, I got home to find her at my house. My mother…
Orville and I went to the bookstore after our trip to the laundry mat today (don’t ask!) and the wonderful lady there recommended a book called Snow Treasure about some children who snuck the treasury of Norway out from under the noses of the Nazi on sleds. We got back to Grandma’s and were telling…
Juss: “Mom! My old gameboy is broken!” Mommy: “Here let me help you.” I poke at the red binoculars he calls his ‘gameboy.’ “Is that better?” Juss: “But, Mom, my character’s still not moving!” Mommy: “I’ll try again.” Juss: “Now his feet aren’t moving!” Mommy: “I’ll change the battery.” I poke it again. Juss, departing:…
Orville and I spent two weeks filming our version of the Jonah story, Jonah and the Clown Fish. Orville and I wrote the script. We made a two-minute preview (which took forever) and then the 20 minute film of the story itself. We are using a hand-held 8mm camcorder, with no ability to edit or…
Now, if you type www.arhyalon.com into your address bar, it will bring you here! No idea why you would, but stil… kind of cool. (John was getting some Domain names. Thought I’d snap this one up for the distant future, after my current series comes out, when my next series comes out — at which point…